import requests


def scrape(address):
    """ Get HTML-page for the given url

    Parameters: address: the address to fetch the HTML-page from
    Returns:    requests-object if successful, else None
    Algorithm:  Simple wrapper for requests.get(address)
    """
    try:
        res = requests.get(address)
        res.raise_for_status()
    except Exception as e:
        print("An exception occured: {}".format(e))
        return None
    return res