# rest.js
> GitHub REST API client for JavaScript
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## Installation
```shell
npm install @octokit/rest
```
## Usage
```js
const { Octokit } = require("@octokit/rest");
const octokit = new Octokit();
// Compare: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-organization-repositories
octokit.repos
.listForOrg({
org: "octokit",
type: "public"
})
.then(({ data }) => {
// handle data
});
```
See https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/ for full documentation.
## Contributing
We would love you to contribute to `@octokit/rest`, pull requests are very welcome! Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information.
## Credits
`@octokit/rest` was originally created as [`node-github`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/github) in 2012 by Mike de Boer from Cloud9 IDE, Inc.
It was adopted and renamed by GitHub in 2017
## LICENSE
[MIT](LICENSE)