Good change! Why not create a generic async fetch from now, too?

E.g.:

async def async_fetch(
    method: str = 'GET',
    url: str = '',
    headers: dict = None,
    params: dict = None,
):
    try:
        async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
            response = await client.request(
                method=method.upper(),
                url=url,
                headers=headers,
                params=params,
            )
            response.raise_for_status() 
            return response.json() 
    except httpx.HTTPError as e:
        #  Handle HTTP errors
        raise Exception(f'HTTP error: {e}')
    except Exception as e:
        # Handle other exceptions
        raise Exception(f'Error: {e}')

I like this idea - I'll do it in a later PR when there's time.