httpclient

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

Ranking: 90 of 196,106

Downloads: 529,973,779

Ranking: 124 of 196,079

Downloads: 184,278

Rank	Downloads	Name
117	417,073,711	webmock
156	333,871,061	faraday-httpclient
554	95,410,638	algoliasearch
996	51,491,524	gitlab-labkit
1,022	50,100,874	airbrake
1,053	47,433,406	select2-rails
1,097	44,530,601	pusher
1,647	23,349,097	winrm
1,920	17,105,696	authy
1,944	16,484,760	opensearch-transport
2,212	11,571,407	google-ads-common
2,330	9,968,795	sniffer
2,423	9,284,244	httplog
2,546	8,452,337	ridley
2,587	8,198,374	firebase
3,154	5,248,221	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,512	3,931,133	boxr
3,633	3,628,684	cf-uaa-lib
3,763	3,329,667	couchrest
3,807	3,236,713	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
275	197,536,725	mutex_m