httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 192,104

Downloads: 496,274,678

Ranking: 129 of 192,085

Downloads: 80,907

Rank	Downloads	Name
118	388,805,302	webmock
160	308,338,860	faraday-httpclient
585	88,343,933	algoliasearch
953	51,121,262	gitlab-labkit
1,001	48,685,888	airbrake
1,047	45,426,502	select2-rails
1,099	42,555,226	pusher
1,615	22,436,579	winrm
1,874	16,927,867	authy
1,933	15,669,586	opensearch-transport
2,180	11,353,697	google-ads-common
2,349	9,190,607	sniffer
2,426	8,640,506	httplog
2,462	8,393,401	ridley
2,487	8,198,227	pubnub
2,594	7,657,410	firebase
3,076	5,149,221	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,535	3,594,196	boxr
3,542	3,581,061	cf-uaa-lib
3,710	3,182,597	couchrest

Rank	Downloads	Name
305	162,788,674	mutex_m