httpclient

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

Ranking: 88 of 188,368

Downloads: 467,335,571

Ranking: 105 of 188,354

Downloads: 297,423

Rank	Downloads	Name
115	365,057,722	webmock
160	285,391,586	faraday-httpclient
621	82,569,900	algoliasearch
926	50,570,858	gitlab-labkit
977	47,360,868	airbrake
1,044	43,563,379	select2-rails
1,092	40,838,915	pusher
1,599	21,656,571	winrm
1,813	16,694,653	authy
1,894	15,119,680	opensearch-transport
2,130	11,121,704	google-ads-common
2,356	8,663,010	sniffer
2,397	8,347,976	ridley
2,431	8,124,869	httplog
2,465	7,890,971	pubnub
2,570	7,252,323	firebase
3,030	5,030,151	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,447	3,546,838	cf-uaa-lib
3,508	3,389,091	boxr
3,637	3,092,431	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
337	132,137,429	mutex_m