Ability to send POST requests

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by tracing the downloader's request path and existing GET handling, then determine how POST requests and their data should be represented. Done means a POST-backed API can be downloaded reliably, with tests covering the new behavior.

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Description

feature-request system:downloading

There are some sites that actually use POST requests for their APIs, it would be nice if we could do POSTs in the downloader system to handle these cases.

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