httpclient

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

Ranking: 91 of 183,848

Downloads: 380,536,601

Ranking: 103 of 183,836

Downloads: 277,491

Rank	Downloads	Name
121	296,790,569	webmock
167	223,139,873	faraday-httpclient
214	170,572,120	google-apis-core
668	66,749,887	algoliasearch
896	44,323,670	airbrake
909	43,459,912	gitlab-labkit
997	38,663,877	select2-rails
1,027	36,646,614	pusher
1,510	19,496,781	winrm
1,667	15,719,419	authy
1,780	13,480,546	opensearch-transport
1,958	10,511,361	google-ads-common
2,179	8,223,646	ridley
2,362	7,039,981	pubnub
2,366	7,020,959	sniffer
2,402	6,737,019	httplog
2,516	6,111,816	firebase
2,809	4,750,895	fluent-plugin-sumologic_output
3,193	3,494,595	cf-uaa-lib
3,426	2,923,283	boxr

Rank	Downloads	Name