httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 195,571

Downloads: 524,438,713

Ranking: 127 of 195,548

Downloads: 90,162

Rank	Downloads	Name
117	412,403,294	webmock
155	330,230,676	faraday-httpclient
557	94,253,412	algoliasearch
990	51,414,275	gitlab-labkit
1,013	49,875,485	airbrake
1,052	47,101,538	select2-rails
1,098	44,155,366	pusher
1,643	23,188,235	winrm
1,911	17,080,386	authy
1,944	16,391,284	opensearch-transport
2,207	11,541,474	google-ads-common
2,332	9,857,270	sniffer
2,426	9,175,410	httplog
2,531	8,439,388	ridley
2,585	8,118,017	firebase
3,140	5,230,540	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,516	3,874,761	boxr
3,620	3,620,339	cf-uaa-lib
3,749	3,308,734	couchrest
3,789	3,221,962	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
279	191,894,901	mutex_m