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 Otherwise, refer to this Guide:
 
 1. Download and open this repository with `git clone https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT.git`
-2. Create a `.env` file in your root directory and set the env variable `OPENAI_API_KEY` with your [OpenAI API key](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys) and `VITE_API_STREAMING` to true or false, depending on whether you want streaming answers or not.
+2. Create a `.env` file in your root directory and set the env variable `API_KEY` with your [OpenAI API key](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys) and `VITE_API_STREAMING` to true or false, depending on whether you want streaming answers or not.
    It should look like this inside:
 
    ```