diff --git a/helpers.go b/helpers.go
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+const baseURL = "https://www.register2park.com"
+
+// Builds a URL for the given path and parameters
+func BuildRequestWithBody(method string, path string, params map[string]string, body io.Reader) *http.Request {
+	var url string
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(path, "http") {
+		url = baseURL + path
+	}
+	url = path
+
+	if params != nil {
+		takenFirst := false
+		for key, value := range params {
+			paramChar := "&"
+			if !takenFirst {
+				paramChar = "?"
+				takenFirst = true
+			}
+
+			url += paramChar + key + "=" + value
+		}
+	}
+
+	request, _ := http.NewRequest(method, url, body)
+	AddUserAgent(request)
+	return request
+}
+
+func BuildRequest(method string, path string, params map[string]string) *http.Request {
+	return BuildRequestWithBody(method, path, params, nil)
+}
+
+func AddUserAgent(req *http.Request) {
+	req.Header.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
+}
+
+func Plural(n int) string {
+	if n == 1 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return "s"
+}