How to properly call ScalablyTyped request module?

Question

There's a request module on npm which is called the following way:

const request = require('request');
request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
  // processing
});

I'm using ScalablyTyped bindings which appear to have this method defined here. I am trying to call it but with no luck:

import typings.request.mod.RequestAPI

RequestAPI("http://localhost:8888")

This leads to an error:

[error] -- [E006] Not Found Error: /home/user/Dev/Scala/scalajs-auto-cors/src/main/scala/app/TutorialApp.scala:15:4 
[error] 15 |    RequestAPI("http://localhost:8888")
[error]    |    ^^^^^^^^^^
[error]    |    Not found: RequestAPI
[error]    |
[error]    | longer explanation available when compiling with `-explain`
[error] one error found
[error] (Compile / compileIncremental) Compilation failed

I'm not sure how import succeeds but method call doesn't. What would be the right way to properly translate the JS code?