Example of querying the YQL console.

import restkit
import simplejson

YQL_URL = ('http://query.yahooapis.com', '/v1/public/yql')

value = '11215'

pmr = restkit.Resource(YQL_URL[0])
query = 'SELECT * FROM geo.places WHERE text = "%s"'
qs = value.replace(r'"', r'\"')
response = pmr.post(
    path    = YQL_URL[1],
    format  = 'json',
    q       = query % qs
)

s = response.body_string()
b = simplejson.loads(s)

print b

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