diff --git a/src/polyglot/urllib.py b/src/polyglot/urllib.py
index 46bc7ed883..a79a535fbb 100644
--- a/src/polyglot/urllib.py
+++ b/src/polyglot/urllib.py
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_litera
 from polyglot.builtins import is_py3
 
 if is_py3:
-    from urllib.request import urlopen  # noqa
+    from urllib.request import urlopen, Request  # noqa
     from urllib.parse import urlencode  # noqa
 else:
     from urllib import urlencode  # noqa
-    from urllib2 import urlopen   # noqa
+    from urllib2 import urlopen, Request  # noqa