diff --git a/src/outbackcdx/Capture.java b/src/outbackcdx/Capture.java
index 7f5d0e6..e5e2b61 100644
--- a/src/outbackcdx/Capture.java
+++ b/src/outbackcdx/Capture.java
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ public class Capture {
     public long originalCompressedoffset = -1;
     public String originalFile = "-";
 
+    // pywb adds this to the CDXJ for POST requests
+    public String method = "GET";
+
     protected static Pattern URLKEY_POSTDATA_REGEX =
             Pattern.compile("[?&](__wb_post_data|__warc_post_data)=([^&]+).*$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
 
@@ -544,6 +547,9 @@ private void put(String field, Object value) {
                 case "originalFilename":
                     originalFile = coerceString(value);
                     break;
+                case "method":
+                    method = coerceString(value);
+                    break;
                 default:
                     throw new IllegalArgumentException("no such capture field: " + field);
             }
@@ -597,6 +603,8 @@ public Object get(String field) {
                 } else {
                     return "bytes=" + compressedoffset + "-" + (compressedoffset + length - 1);
                 }
+            case "method":
+                return method;
             default:
                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("no such capture field: " + field);
         }
diff --git a/test/outbackcdx/CaptureTest.java b/test/outbackcdx/CaptureTest.java
index d76241e..717f766 100644
--- a/test/outbackcdx/CaptureTest.java
+++ b/test/outbackcdx/CaptureTest.java
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ public void testCdxDigestScheme() {
 
     @Test
     public void testCdxj() {
-        Capture src = Capture.fromCdxLine("com,example)/robots.txt 20210203115119 {\"url\": \"https://example.org/robots.txt\", \"mime\": \"unk\", \"status\": \"400\", \"digest\": \"3I42H3S6NNFQ2MSVX7XZKYAYSCX5QBYJ\", \"length\": \"451\", \"offset\": \"90493\", \"filename\": \"example.warc.gz\"}", new UrlCanonicalizer());
+        Capture src = Capture.fromCdxLine("com,example)/robots.txt 20210203115119 {\"url\": \"https://example.org/robots.txt\", \"mime\": \"unk\", \"status\": \"400\", \"digest\": \"3I42H3S6NNFQ2MSVX7XZKYAYSCX5QBYJ\", \"length\": \"451\", \"offset\": \"90493\", \"filename\": \"example.warc.gz\", \"method\": \"POST\"}", new UrlCanonicalizer());
         Capture dst = new Capture(src.encodeKey(), src.encodeValue());
         assertEquals(451, src.length);
         assertEquals(90493, src.compressedoffset);
+        assertEquals("POST", src.method);
         assertFieldsEqual(src, dst);
         assertEquals("com,example)/robots.txt 20210203115119 https://example.org/robots.txt unk 400 3I42H3S6NNFQ2MSVX7XZKYAYSCX5QBYJ - - 451 90493 example.warc.gz - - -", dst.toString());
     }