def get(self, url, params={}):
params.update({'<STR_LIT>': self.api_key})<EOL>try:<EOL><INDENT>response = requests.get(self.host + url, params=params)<EOL><DEDENT>except RequestException as e:<EOL><INDENT>response = e.args<EOL><DEDENT>return self.json_parse(response.content)<EOL>
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