httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 197,085

Downloads: 541,065,027

Ranking: 149 of 197,066

Downloads: 90,523

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	427,643,437	webmock
157	340,575,349	faraday-httpclient
551	97,945,106	algoliasearch
1,008	51,647,024	gitlab-labkit
1,027	50,606,926	airbrake
1,054	48,165,196	select2-rails
1,100	45,192,629	pusher
1,655	23,736,769	winrm
1,930	17,165,444	authy
1,952	16,648,298	opensearch-transport
2,226	11,630,103	google-ads-common
2,326	10,238,399	sniffer
2,424	9,486,252	httplog
2,570	8,476,489	ridley
2,588	8,364,095	firebase
3,175	5,296,355	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,524	4,004,372	boxr
3,666	3,651,387	cf-uaa-lib
3,779	3,374,425	couchrest
3,833	3,262,333	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
262	209,648,557	mutex_m