Hi all,

There is a behaviour with my requests that I am struggling to understand, but I was hoping someone could help me figure it out. I apologise in advance if this is a coding error rather than something more related to the API.

Essentially, I receive the expected response when I submit my request using the GET method. However, when I use the same parameters with POST, the response ignores everything but the query.

I have an example in R with a request using query and options.

library(purrr)
library(httr2)
library(dplyr)
library(jsonlite)

params <- list(
  q = list("_gte" = list(patent_date = "2024-01-01")),
  o = list(size = 30)
)

req <- request("https://search.patentsview.org/api/v1/patent") |>
  req_headers("X-Api-Key" = api_key) |>
  req_throttle(45 / 60)

req_get <- req |>
  req_url_query(
    q = toJSON(params$q, auto_unbox = TRUE),
    o = toJSON(params$o, auto_unbox = TRUE)
  )

resp_get <- req_get |>
  req_perform() |>
  resp_body_json() |>
  pluck("patents") |>
  bind_rows() # returns 30 observations in the correct date range

req_post <- req |>
  req_body_json(params)

resp_post <- req_post |>
  req_perform() |>
  resp_body_json() |>
  pluck("patents") |>
  bind_rows() # returns 100 observations in the correct date range