docs: Describe what an API key is and how to get one.

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At this point, if you're following along and/or writing your own Hello World
webhook, you have written enough code to test your integration.
You can do so by using Zulip itself or curl on the command line.
First, get an API key from the Your Bots section of your Zulip user's Settings
page. If you haven't created a bot already, you can do that there. Then copy
its API key and replace the placeholder "<api_key>" in the examples with
your real key. This is how Zulip knows the request is from an authorized user.
Now you can test using Zulip itself, or curl on the command line.
Using `manage.py` from within Zulip Dev environment: