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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _get_stats(self, url, instance):
 """ Hit a given URL and return the parsed json. """


        self.log.debug('Fetching Couchbase stats at url: {}'.format(url))

        ssl_verify = instance.get('ssl_verify', True)
        timeout = float(instance.get('timeout', DEFAULT_TIMEOUT))

        auth = None
        if 'user' in instance and 'password' in instance:
            auth = (instance['user'], instance['password'])

        r = requests.get(url, auth=auth, verify=ssl_verify, headers=headers(self.agentConfig), timeout=timeout)
        r.raise_for_status()
        return r.json()