Can I pass an API key as an environment variable?

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Can I pass an API key as an environment variable? #21

Open miguelmartins17 opened 4 years ago

miguelmartins17 commented 4 years ago

Can the existence of environment variables camouflage the API key so it doesn't have to be exposed when you need to share the code? Can I somehow pass an API key as an environment variable?