@octokit/rest

rest.js

GitHub REST API client for JavaScript

Installation

npm install @octokit/rest

Usage

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 for more information.

Credits

@octokit/rest was originally created as node-github in 2012 by Mike de Boer from Cloud9 IDE, Inc.

It was adopted and renamed by GitHub in 2017

LICENSE

MIT

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github

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node-github

The 'node-github' package is an older client for the GitHub API, offering basic functionalities to interact with GitHub resources. Compared to @octokit/rest, it might not be as up-to-date or feature-rich, as @octokit/rest is the official client library recommended by GitHub.