httpclient

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

Ranking: 90 of 196,721

Downloads: 535,391,029

Ranking: 134 of 196,694

Downloads: 173,929

Rank	Downloads	Name
117	422,455,379	webmock
156	337,219,840	faraday-httpclient
554	96,645,206	algoliasearch
1,002	51,574,895	gitlab-labkit
1,024	50,348,778	airbrake
1,056	47,793,957	select2-rails
1,098	44,834,402	pusher
1,651	23,546,252	winrm
1,922	17,134,016	authy
1,951	16,564,028	opensearch-transport
2,218	11,599,770	google-ads-common
2,325	10,097,593	sniffer
2,426	9,380,030	httplog
2,559	8,463,963	ridley
2,589	8,278,868	firebase
3,165	5,266,805	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,520	3,964,991	boxr
3,648	3,638,078	cf-uaa-lib
3,773	3,350,881	couchrest
3,817	3,249,034	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
272	203,396,883	mutex_m