stdlib URL request function

request.py

import json
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

def request(
    url: str,
    method: str | None = None,
    data: dict | None = None,
    query_params: dict | None = None,
    raise_on_error: bool = True,
) -> str | dict | list:
    headers = {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Basic abcdef==",
    }

    encoded_data: bytes | None = None
    if data:
        encoded_data = json.dumps(data).encode("utf-8")

    if query_params:
        encoded_params = urllib.parse.urlencode(query_params)
        url = f"{url}?{encoded_params}"

    req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=encoded_data, headers=headers, method=method)

    page = None
    try:
        with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
            page = response.read()
    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
        if raise_on_error:
            raise

        print("WARNING: status code", e.status)
        print("...", e.url)
        print("...", str(e))
        return ""

    try:
        result = json.loads(page)
    except Exception:
        result = page

    return result