httpclient

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

Ranking: 88 of 188,635

Downloads: 467,618,604

Ranking: 111 of 188,368

Downloads: 283,033

Rank	Downloads	Name
115	365,285,520	webmock
160	285,639,942	faraday-httpclient
620	82,624,439	algoliasearch
926	50,575,501	gitlab-labkit
977	47,373,757	airbrake
1,044	43,581,713	select2-rails
1,092	40,854,661	pusher
1,599	21,662,007	winrm
1,813	16,697,699	authy
1,895	15,124,820	opensearch-transport
2,130	11,124,062	google-ads-common
2,356	8,668,258	sniffer
2,397	8,348,448	ridley
2,431	8,129,914	httplog
2,464	7,893,446	pubnub
2,570	7,255,774	firebase
3,030	5,031,020	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,449	3,547,080	cf-uaa-lib
3,508	3,391,203	boxr
3,638	3,093,032	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
335	132,435,586	mutex_m