httpclient

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

Ranking: 88 of 188,219

Downloads: 464,631,253

Ranking: 96 of 188,199

Downloads: 340,318

Rank	Downloads	Name
115	363,317,328	webmock
160	283,474,624	faraday-httpclient
628	82,113,308	algoliasearch
923	50,532,798	gitlab-labkit
976	47,263,464	airbrake
1,040	43,408,327	select2-rails
1,090	40,711,648	pusher
1,598	21,607,919	winrm
1,810	16,673,692	authy
1,893	15,071,024	opensearch-transport
2,120	11,108,175	google-ads-common
2,356	8,625,532	sniffer
2,395	8,344,855	ridley
2,432	8,088,356	httplog
2,464	7,866,971	pubnub
2,568	7,226,357	firebase
3,027	5,024,041	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,441	3,545,226	cf-uaa-lib
3,508	3,373,238	boxr
3,633	3,087,815	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
339	129,743,565	mutex_m