A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

var data = {
    resource_id: '44de5821-bf7c-43ad-b20e-baef52982870', // the resource id
    limit: 5, // get 5 results
    q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
};
$.ajax({
    url: 'https://catalog.sarawak.gov.my/api/3/action/datastore_search',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success: function(data) {
        alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
    }
});

import urllib
url = 'https://catalog.sarawak.gov.my/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=44de5821-bf7c-43ad-b20e-baef52982870&limit=5&q=title:jones'
fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
print fileobj.read()