code: def get(self, url, params={}):
          
  
          params.update({'api_key': self.api_key})
          try:
              response = requests.get(self.host + url, params=params)
          except RequestException as e:
              response = e.args
  
          return self.json_parse(response.content)
docs: Issues a GET request against the API, properly formatting the params
  
          :param url: a string, the url you are requesting
          :param params: a dict, the key-value of all the paramaters needed
                         in the request
          :returns: a dict parsed of the JSON response