httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 192,666

Downloads: 501,553,573

Ranking: 135 of 192,588

Downloads: 195,477

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	393,327,468	webmock
159	313,435,309	faraday-httpclient
580	89,416,021	algoliasearch
962	51,186,098	gitlab-labkit
1,004	48,906,275	airbrake
1,047	45,736,244	select2-rails
1,100	42,867,788	pusher
1,620	22,582,065	winrm
1,884	16,957,189	authy
1,936	15,791,906	opensearch-transport
2,186	11,403,445	google-ads-common
2,348	9,299,278	sniffer
2,424	8,739,263	httplog
2,471	8,400,038	ridley
2,490	8,279,043	pubnub
2,592	7,741,356	firebase
3,087	5,162,168	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,528	3,640,563	boxr
3,551	3,587,944	cf-uaa-lib
3,722	3,204,315	couchrest

Rank	Downloads	Name
300	168,228,273	mutex_m