# rest.js > GitHub REST API client for JavaScript [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octokit/rest) [](https://travis-ci.org/octokit/rest.js) [](https://coveralls.io/github/octokit/rest.js) [](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)