# rest.js > GitHub REST API client for JavaScript [![@latest](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@octokit/rest.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octokit/rest) ![Build Status](https://github.com/octokit/rest.js/workflows/Test/badge.svg) [![Greenkeeper](https://badges.greenkeeper.io/octokit/rest.js.svg)](https://greenkeeper.io/) ## 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)