diff --git a/translate/cloud-client/quickstart.py b/translate/cloud-client/quickstart.py
index 6aeebe2974f7..5bb4a5085bb9 100644
--- a/translate/cloud-client/quickstart.py
+++ b/translate/cloud-client/quickstart.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def run_quickstart():
     api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
 
     # Instantiates a client
-    translate_client = translate.Client(api_key)
+    translate_client = translate.Client(api_key=api_key)
 
     # The text to translate
     text = u'Hello, world!'
diff --git a/translate/cloud-client/snippets.py b/translate/cloud-client/snippets.py
index bd8ab407136b..8a2201b8100a 100644
--- a/translate/cloud-client/snippets.py
+++ b/translate/cloud-client/snippets.py
@@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ def translate_text(api_key, target, text, model='base'):
 
     # Text can also be a sequence of strings, in which case this method
     # will return a sequence of results for each text.
-    result = translate_client.translate(text,
-                                        target_language=target,
-                                        model=model)
+    result = translate_client.translate(
+        text,
+        target_language=target,
+        model=model)
 
     print(u'Text: {}'.format(result['input']))
     print(u'Translation: {}'.format(result['translatedText']))