code: def _get(self, uri, options):
          
          url = "http://%s/%s" % (self.host, uri)
          r = requests.get(url, params=options)
          if r.status_code == 200:
              data = r.json()
              return data['results']
          else:
              # Throws anything not 200 error
              r.raise_for_status()
docs: Quick and dirty wrapper around the requests object to do
          some simple data catching
  
          :params uri: a string, the uri you want to request
          :params options: a dict, the list of parameters you want to use