The Data API can be accessed via the following actions of the CKAN action API.

Query	https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/datastore_search

Query example (first 5 results)

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=62ac907e-2f63-4645-89ac-542e0e51204b&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=62ac907e-2f63-4645-89ac-542e0e51204b&q=jones

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '62ac907e-2f63-4645-89ac-542e0e51204b', // the resource id
  limit: 5, // get 5 results
  q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
};
$.ajax({
  url: 'https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/datastore_search',
  data: data,
  dataType: 'jsonp',
  success: function(data) {
    alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
  }
});
                

import urllib.request
url = 'https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=62ac907e-2f63-4645-89ac-542e0e51204b&limit=5&q=title:jones'  
fileobj = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
print(fileobj.read())