From c3f81dc6e7938e70e9b9abe8fd501668b43f143a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Esa Jokinen <58781154+oh2fih@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:02:01 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify the NIST API key documentation (#296)

---
 README.rst | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index c8dbd8885..01ff06326 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -107,8 +107,9 @@ Or via the the CveXplore object:
     >>> cvx.database.populate()
     >>> cvx.database.update()
 
-You can add your `nist api key <https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/request-an-api-key>`_ in the .env file.
-You can populate CveXplore without an api key, but it will limit the amount of parallel requests made to the NIST api.
+You can add your `NIST API Key <https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/request-an-api-key>`_ in the environment variable
+:code:`NVD_NIST_API_KEY` (e.g., in the :code:`~/.cvexplore/.env` file). You can populate CveXplore without an API key,
+but it will limit the amount of parallel requests made to the NIST API.
 
 Package usage
 -------------