httpclient

gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby

Ranking: 89 of 186,938

Downloads: 444,620,178

Ranking: 97 of 186,929

Downloads: 303,387

Rank	Downloads	Name
115	349,233,020	webmock
162	268,575,695	faraday-httpclient
659	78,262,004	algoliasearch
908	50,293,344	gitlab-labkit
964	46,519,574	airbrake
1,045	42,176,972	select2-rails
1,085	39,670,566	pusher
1,587	21,161,293	winrm
1,766	16,470,098	authy
1,840	14,747,335	opensearch-transport
2,082	10,978,038	google-ads-common
2,351	8,311,851	ridley
2,358	8,271,519	sniffer
2,429	7,757,349	httplog
2,444	7,671,701	pubnub
2,564	6,976,041	firebase
2,983	4,970,855	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,394	3,530,378	cf-uaa-lib
3,508	3,255,198	boxr
3,602	3,045,525	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
415	108,425,955	mutex_m