diff --git a/picard/webservice/__init__.py b/picard/webservice/__init__.py
index 203e08086..dce872384 100644
--- a/picard/webservice/__init__.py
+++ b/picard/webservice/__init__.py
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ class WSRequest(QNetworkRequest):
         important=False,
         request_mimetype=None,
         url=None,
+        queryargs=None,
     ):
         """
         Args:
@@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ class WSRequest(QNetworkRequest):
             important: Indicates that this is an important request.
             request_mimetype: Set the Content-Type header.
             url: URL passed as a string or as a QUrl to use for this request
+            queryargs: dictionary of keys and values to add to the url
         """
         # mandatory parameters
         self.method = method
@@ -149,6 +151,14 @@ class WSRequest(QNetworkRequest):
 
         if not isinstance(url, QUrl):
             url = QUrl(url)
+
+        if queryargs is not None:
+            query = QtCore.QUrlQuery(url)
+            for k, v in queryargs.items():
+                # FIXME: check if encoding is correct
+                query.addQueryItem(k, str(v))
+            url.setQuery(query)
+
         super().__init__(url)
 
         # optional parameters
diff --git a/test/test_webservice.py b/test/test_webservice.py
index bd79fe698..384925c2a 100644
--- a/test/test_webservice.py
+++ b/test/test_webservice.py
@@ -521,3 +521,13 @@ class WSRequestTest(PicardTestCase):
         self.assertTrue(TEMP_ERRORS_RETRIES > 1)
         self.assertEqual(request.mark_for_retry(), 1)
         self.assertFalse(request.max_retries_reached())
+
+    def test_queryargs(self):
+        request = WSRequest(
+            url='http://example.org/path?a=1',
+            method='GET',
+            handler=dummy_handler,
+            queryargs={'a': 2, 'b': 'x%20x', 'c': '1+2', 'd': '&', 'e': '?'},
+        )
+        # FIXME: check encoding
+        self.assertEqual(request.url().toString(), 'http://example.org/path?a=1&a=2&b=x x&c=1+2&d=%26&e=?')