diff --git a/docs/Developers/using-the-API.md b/docs/Developers/using-the-API.md
index 466957f5e8..a01ef62cfe 100644
--- a/docs/Developers/using-the-API.md
+++ b/docs/Developers/using-the-API.md
@@ -31,25 +31,27 @@ Next, you’ll need connect to your running server version of Actual to access y
 ```js
 let api = require('@actual-app/api');
 
-await api.init({
-  // Budget data will be cached locally here, in subdirectories for each file.
-  dataDir: '/some/path',
-  // This is the URL of your running server
-  serverURL: 'http://localhost:5006',
-  // This is the password you use to log into the server
-  password: 'hunter2',
-});
+(async () => {
+  await api.init({
+    // Budget data will be cached locally here, in subdirectories for each file.
+    dataDir: '/some/path',
+    // This is the URL of your running server
+    serverURL: 'http://localhost:5006',
+    // This is the password you use to log into the server
+    password: 'hunter2',
+  });
 
-// This is the ID from Settings → Show advanced settings → Sync ID
-await api.downloadBudget('1cfdbb80-6274-49bf-b0c2-737235a4c81f');
-// or, if you have end-to-end encryption enabled:
-await api.downloadBudget('1cfdbb80-6274-49bf-b0c2-737235a4c81f', {
-  password: 'password1',
-});
+  // This is the ID from Settings → Show advanced settings → Sync ID
+  await api.downloadBudget('1cfdbb80-6274-49bf-b0c2-737235a4c81f');
+  // or, if you have end-to-end encryption enabled:
+  await api.downloadBudget('1cfdbb80-6274-49bf-b0c2-737235a4c81f', {
+    password: 'password1',
+  });
 
-let budget = await api.getBudgetMonth('2019-10');
-console.log(budget);
-await api.shutdown();
+  let budget = await api.getBudgetMonth('2019-10');
+  console.log(budget);
+  await api.shutdown();
+})();
 ```
 
 Heads up! You probably don’t want to hard-code the passwords like that, especially if you’ll be using Git to track your code. You can use environment variables to store the passwords instead, or read them in from a file, or request them interactively when running the script instead.