httpclient

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

Ranking: 90 of 184,765

Downloads: 399,159,692

Ranking: 102 of 184,752

Downloads: 197,416

Rank	Downloads	Name
119	312,065,581	webmock
165	236,948,562	faraday-httpclient
210	184,854,625	google-apis-core
671	70,440,569	algoliasearch
897	46,077,665	gitlab-labkit
917	45,024,291	airbrake
1,011	39,660,208	select2-rails
1,049	37,507,290	pusher
1,540	20,014,427	winrm
1,709	15,936,653	authy
1,789	14,089,902	opensearch-transport
2,003	10,655,149	google-ads-common
2,221	8,247,378	ridley
2,354	7,409,866	sniffer
2,386	7,220,593	pubnub
2,413	7,039,493	httplog
2,524	6,372,715	firebase
2,850	4,821,762	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,270	3,505,814	cf-uaa-lib
3,468	3,011,686	boxr

Rank	Downloads	Name
788	57,541,288	mutex_m