httpclient

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

Ranking: 89 of 187,548

Downloads: 454,714,327

Ranking: 110 of 187,532

Downloads: 325,133

Rank	Downloads	Name
114	356,362,487	webmock
162	276,235,282	faraday-httpclient
642	80,202,824	algoliasearch
918	50,408,910	gitlab-labkit
971	46,877,624	airbrake
1,045	42,791,783	select2-rails
1,088	40,206,142	pusher
1,596	21,372,603	winrm
1,779	16,574,719	authy
1,873	14,925,898	opensearch-transport
2,095	11,049,754	google-ads-common
2,359	8,458,532	sniffer
2,378	8,331,586	ridley
2,431	7,927,918	httplog
2,452	7,781,455	pubnub
2,562	7,116,032	firebase
3,004	5,000,452	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,417	3,537,645	cf-uaa-lib
3,510	3,311,557	boxr
3,619	3,067,957	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
369	119,663,581	mutex_m