DataSF's API is powered by SODA (https://github.com/socrata/soda-ruby), which is a gem that let you access the data simply with a weblink to the JSON file. The output of the data is stored as Hashie (https://github.com/intridea/hashie), which is a growing collection of tools that extend Hashes.
I spent the longest time trying to figure out how to get data from hashie. It was especially tricky because hashie doesn't store empty value, so the location of each item can be different depending on how complete each data point is.
For instance, this is the output for the movie "A Smile Like Yours":
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