httpclient

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

Ranking: 92 of 183,521

Downloads: 374,136,284

Ranking: 104 of 183,406

Downloads: 259,728

Rank	Downloads	Name
120	291,683,515	webmock
167	218,175,614	faraday-httpclient
218	165,278,688	google-apis-core
666	65,517,832	algoliasearch
886	44,032,540	airbrake
916	42,380,607	gitlab-labkit
989	38,259,950	select2-rails
1,023	36,315,848	pusher
1,501	19,233,280	winrm
1,646	15,625,121	authy
1,769	13,269,304	opensearch-transport
1,945	10,453,431	google-ads-common
2,153	8,212,098	ridley
2,351	6,969,813	pubnub
2,365	6,879,924	sniffer
2,410	6,574,028	httplog
2,523	5,994,370	firebase
2,796	4,722,643	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,170	3,490,826	cf-uaa-lib
3,417	2,901,923	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name