httpclient

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

Ranking: 88 of 188,742

Downloads: 470,871,938

Ranking: 111 of 188,718

Downloads: 296,722

Rank	Downloads	Name
115	367,507,950	webmock
160	288,187,318	faraday-httpclient
620	83,191,635	algoliasearch
929	50,617,783	gitlab-labkit
979	47,590,894	airbrake
1,041	43,799,817	select2-rails
1,089	41,102,193	pusher
1,602	21,739,522	winrm
1,816	16,729,874	authy
1,900	15,159,449	opensearch-transport
2,134	11,143,107	google-ads-common
2,356	8,712,706	sniffer
2,402	8,356,065	ridley
2,431	8,181,066	httplog
2,468	7,912,238	pubnub
2,572	7,295,630	firebase
3,036	5,040,281	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,456	3,549,938	cf-uaa-lib
3,509	3,413,571	boxr
3,648	3,101,761	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
332	135,691,553	mutex_m