httpclient

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

Ranking: 88 of 187,922

Downloads: 459,787,842

Ranking: 96 of 187,912

Downloads: 326,722

Rank	Downloads	Name
114	359,910,825	webmock
160	279,980,890	faraday-httpclient
632	81,201,543	algoliasearch
919	50,469,509	gitlab-labkit
975	47,066,797	airbrake
1,041	43,108,589	select2-rails
1,087	40,466,988	pusher
1,596	21,479,517	winrm
1,789	16,627,020	authy
1,883	15,001,767	opensearch-transport
2,109	11,082,067	google-ads-common
2,356	8,550,616	sniffer
2,387	8,338,096	ridley
2,430	8,010,412	httplog
2,463	7,823,224	pubnub
2,565	7,175,674	firebase
3,018	5,012,754	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,431	3,540,972	cf-uaa-lib
3,510	3,341,326	boxr
3,628	3,079,053	td-client

Rank	Downloads	Name
354	124,936,135	mutex_m