httpclient

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

Ranking: 88 of 189,628

Downloads: 480,249,863

Ranking: 115 of 189,601

Downloads: 244,802

Rank	Downloads	Name
115	374,330,283	webmock
158	295,436,758	faraday-httpclient
610	85,039,074	algoliasearch
939	50,872,256	gitlab-labkit
991	47,978,604	airbrake
1,043	44,360,668	select2-rails
1,099	41,591,053	pusher
1,606	22,002,906	winrm
1,842	16,812,380	authy
1,912	15,350,157	opensearch-transport
2,153	11,202,658	google-ads-common
2,347	8,890,144	sniffer
2,421	8,367,619	ridley
2,426	8,339,674	httplog
2,480	8,000,493	pubnub
2,592	7,396,941	firebase
3,059	5,068,442	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,496	3,558,363	cf-uaa-lib
3,527	3,479,284	boxr
3,680	3,121,723	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
323	145,284,941	mutex_m