import requests


def fetch(url, method='GET', **kwargs):
    """
    fetch the url and return the http response body
    implement the same api as requests.request

    :param url:
    :param method: method for the new :class:`Request` object.
    :param params: (optional) Dictionary or bytes to be sent in the query string for the :class:`Request`.
    :param data: (optional) Dictionary, bytes, or file-like object to send in the body of the :class:`Request`.
    :param headers: (optional) Dictionary of HTTP Headers to send with the :class:`Request`.
    :param cookies: (optional) Dict or CookieJar object to send with the :class:`Request`.
    :param files: (optional) Dictionary of 'name': file-like-objects (or {'name': ('filename', fileobj)}) for multipart encoding upload.
    :param auth: (optional) Auth tuple to enable Basic/Digest/Custom HTTP Auth.
    :param timeout: (optional) Float describing the timeout of the request.
    :param allow_redirects: (optional) Boolean. Set to True if POST/PUT/DELETE redirect following is allowed.
    :param proxies: (optional) Dictionary mapping protocol to the URL of the proxy.
    :param verify: (optional) if ``True``, the SSL cert will be verified. A CA_BUNDLE path can also be provided.
    :param stream: (optional) if ``False``, the response content will be immediately downloaded.
    :param cert: (optional) if String, path to ssl client cert file (.pem). If Tuple, ('cert', 'key') pair.
    :return: str (or unicode in python2) or ERROR_STATUS
                str for the http response body
                ERROR_STATUS means fetch error
    """

    resp = requests.request(method, url, **kwargs)
    html_content = resp.text

    return html_content