You could copy a different GET request from the same domain and then grab the URL for the download and replace the one in the GET request with that one
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That's a neat trick, good call! I ended up using an extension called cliget which seems functional so far.
Found this in a stackexchange post from 2018 (not sure if you can do this on MacOS as well):
Initiate download via takeout page in your browser
Go to "Window->Downloads"
Locate the download which is in-progress right now
Right click + Copy link address
From your terminal - wget {url}
That's good for most websites, but it only takes the URL and sometimes websites are tricksy when you're trying to use CLI tools and figured I needed all the appropriate headers. I got an extension cliget which seems to have worked well enough. In the end I think this would have worked, but takeout gives you limited attempts to download a file before it cuts you off entirely and wanted to be sure.
I used to use cliget some years back. Quite a bit, IIRC. Long story short: company customer support portal, downloads would sometimes time out. Installing and using cliget saved me from many fistfuls of hair ripped from my head.
Yep, cliget was the answer. Honestly an extension I wish I knew about sooner.