httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 193,649

Downloads: 512,513,492

Ranking: 120 of 193,618

Downloads: 360,567

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	402,488,411	webmock
157	321,990,676	faraday-httpclient
568	91,747,989	algoliasearch
979	51,290,250	gitlab-labkit
1,010	49,348,356	airbrake
1,051	46,398,387	select2-rails
1,098	43,502,356	pusher
1,630	22,873,362	winrm
1,896	17,019,239	authy
1,939	16,131,830	opensearch-transport
2,191	11,473,526	google-ads-common
2,334	9,612,059	sniffer
2,418	8,959,339	httplog
2,507	8,416,719	ridley
2,586	7,934,240	firebase
3,109	5,190,995	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,518	3,744,980	boxr
3,579	3,599,860	cf-uaa-lib
3,732	3,262,415	couchrest
3,765	3,196,233	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
290	179,573,128	mutex_m