diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3e289587..61a91c48 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ > ✨ Navigate at [cookbook.openai.com](https://cookbook.openai.com) -Example code and guides for accomplishing common tasks with the [OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/introduction). To run these examples, you'll need an OpenAI account and associated API key ([create a free account here](https://beta.openai.com/signup)). +Example code and guides for accomplishing common tasks with the [OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/introduction). To run these examples, you'll need an OpenAI account and associated API key ([create a free account here](https://beta.openai.com/signup)). Set an environment variable called `OPENAI_API_KEY` with your API key. Alternatively, in most IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, you can create an `.env` file at the root of your repo containing `OPENAI_API_KEY=`, which will be picked up by the notebooks. Most code examples are written in Python, though the concepts can be applied in any language.