diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0363884..52cb755 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -263,11 +263,11 @@ arguments to morss is explained in Run above.
 The list of arguments can be obtained by running `morss --help`
 
 ```
-usage: morss [-h] [--format {rss,json,html,csv}] [--search STRING] [--clip]
-             [--indent] [--cache] [--force] [--proxy] [--newest] [--firstlink]
-             [--resolve] [--items XPATH] [--item_link XPATH]
-             [--item_title XPATH] [--item_content XPATH] [--item_time XPATH]
-             [--nolink] [--noref] [--silent]
+usage: morss [-h] [--post STRING] [--format {rss,json,html,csv}]
+             [--search STRING] [--clip] [--indent] [--cache] [--force]
+             [--proxy] [--newest] [--firstlink] [--resolve] [--items XPATH]
+             [--item_link XPATH] [--item_title XPATH] [--item_content XPATH]
+             [--item_time XPATH] [--nolink] [--noref] [--silent]
              url
 
 Get full-text RSS feeds
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ positional arguments:
 
 optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
+  --post STRING         POST request
 
 output:
   --format {rss,json,html,csv}
diff --git a/morss/cli.py b/morss/cli.py
index 56a7092..a9de7b4 100644
--- a/morss/cli.py
+++ b/morss/cli.py
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ def cli_app():
 
     parser.add_argument('url', help='feed url')
 
+    parser.add_argument('--post', action='store', type=str, metavar='STRING', help='POST request')
+
     group = parser.add_argument_group('output')
     group.add_argument('--format', default='rss', choices=('rss', 'json', 'html', 'csv'), help='output format')
     group.add_argument('--search', action='store', type=str, metavar='STRING', help='does a basic case-sensitive search in the feed')
diff --git a/morss/crawler.py b/morss/crawler.py
index 672ecb0..41fa0d6 100644
--- a/morss/crawler.py
+++ b/morss/crawler.py
@@ -81,14 +81,17 @@ def get(*args, **kwargs):
     return adv_get(*args, **kwargs)['data']
 
 
-def adv_get(url, timeout=None, *args, **kwargs):
+def adv_get(url, post=None, timeout=None, *args, **kwargs):
     url = sanitize_url(url)
 
+    if post is not None:
+        post = post.encode('utf-8')
+
     if timeout is None:
-        con = custom_opener(*args, **kwargs).open(url)
+        con = custom_opener(*args, **kwargs).open(url, data=post)
 
     else:
-        con = custom_opener(*args, **kwargs).open(url, timeout=timeout)
+        con = custom_opener(*args, **kwargs).open(url, data=post, timeout=timeout)
 
     data = con.read()
 
diff --git a/morss/morss.py b/morss/morss.py
index 6e430ba..198b0a5 100644
--- a/morss/morss.py
+++ b/morss/morss.py
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ def FeedFetch(url, options):
         delay = 0
 
     try:
-        req = crawler.adv_get(url=url, follow=('rss' if not options.items else None), delay=delay, timeout=TIMEOUT * 2)
+        req = crawler.adv_get(url=url, post=options.post, follow=('rss' if not options.items else None), delay=delay, timeout=TIMEOUT * 2)
 
     except (IOError, HTTPException):
         raise MorssException('Error downloading feed')