httpclient

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

Ranking: 90 of 198,430

Downloads: 552,085,457

Ranking: 140 of 198,401

Downloads: 366,335

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	438,355,577	webmock
159	346,595,994	faraday-httpclient
552	100,300,123	algoliasearch
1,018	51,794,132	gitlab-labkit
1,033	51,100,591	airbrake
1,061	48,958,008	select2-rails
1,103	45,854,007	pusher
1,662	24,103,340	winrm
1,944	17,218,391	authy
1,962	16,793,325	opensearch-transport
2,242	11,680,084	google-ads-common
2,328	10,522,503	sniffer
2,414	9,709,695	httplog
2,594	8,566,105	firebase
2,607	8,493,640	ridley
3,199	5,330,898	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,531	4,083,163	boxr
3,696	3,669,187	cf-uaa-lib
3,797	3,413,570	couchrest
3,850	3,303,521	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
252	222,460,573	mutex_m