httpclient

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

Ranking: 90 of 185,303

Downloads: 410,161,473

Ranking: 113 of 185,287

Downloads: 374,290

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	321,546,201	webmock
163	244,584,729	faraday-httpclient
206	192,358,264	google-apis-core
670	72,468,447	algoliasearch
899	47,273,985	gitlab-labkit
926	45,376,842	airbrake
1,020	40,277,494	select2-rails
1,050	37,983,316	pusher
1,559	20,278,227	winrm
1,727	16,057,605	authy
1,795	14,253,903	opensearch-transport
2,012	10,743,129	google-ads-common
2,243	8,260,548	ridley
2,340	7,641,855	sniffer
2,396	7,325,343	pubnub
2,413	7,234,952	httplog
2,511	6,517,527	firebase
2,883	4,858,250	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,299	3,510,583	cf-uaa-lib
3,485	3,067,229	boxr

Rank	Downloads	Name
691	69,052,927	mutex_m