httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 197,051

Downloads: 540,779,682

Ranking: 130 of 197,010

Downloads: 321,247

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	427,395,904	webmock
157	340,432,581	faraday-httpclient
551	97,881,656	algoliasearch
1,008	51,643,779	gitlab-labkit
1,025	50,592,523	airbrake
1,054	48,150,645	select2-rails
1,098	45,176,336	pusher
1,655	23,726,031	winrm
1,928	17,164,218	authy
1,952	16,645,093	opensearch-transport
2,226	11,628,624	google-ads-common
2,326	10,232,605	sniffer
2,425	9,480,663	httplog
2,570	8,475,341	ridley
2,588	8,361,174	firebase
3,175	5,294,175	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,524	4,002,815	boxr
3,665	3,650,716	cf-uaa-lib
3,779	3,372,477	couchrest
3,829	3,261,866	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
264	209,312,546	mutex_m