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Welcome

The API provides application developers the ability to query a node and interact with the Polkadot or Substrate chains using Javascript. Here you will find documentation and examples to get you started.

::: tip Getting started & Examples Jump right in and get an overview on using the API in your projects, from installation all the way through to making it do magic. Have things working and want tips? The cookbook provides some tips and tricks. Getting started and want some full examples? The ApiPromise examples provide some basic examples. :::

The Polkadot Project

You can read more about the Polkadot Network at https://polkadot.network/ and more about the polkadot-js projects at https://polkadot.js.org

Github repositories

You can find the Polkadot repositories at:

• https://github.com/polkadot-js
• https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot
• https://github.com/paritytech/substrate

This documentation is generated from https://github.com/polkadot-js/api

Contributing

Contribution to the Polkadot JS API are more than welcome. You can report issues and log feature requests.