docs: def get_token(self, url):
          """
          Retrieves a temporary access token
          """
          # A hack to avoid url-encoding the url, since the authorization service
          # doesn't work with correctly encoded urls
  
          parsed_url = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
          parsed_url = parsed_url._replace(path='/authorization/api')
          self.url = urlparse.urlunsplit(parsed_url)
  
          response = self.request(method='GET', url='/v1/token?url=' + url)
          return response.result.text