"""
HTTP client module for making web requests.
"""
import logging
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Default headers to mimic a browser
DEFAULT_HEADERS = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
}

REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 20


def make_request(url: str) -> BeautifulSoup | None:
    """
    Fetch a URL and return a BeautifulSoup object.
    
    Args:
        url: The URL to fetch
        
    Returns:
        BeautifulSoup object if successful, None otherwise
    """
    try:
        response = requests.get(url, headers=DEFAULT_HEADERS, timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
        response.raise_for_status()
        return BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        logging.error(f"Error fetching {url}: {e}")
        return None