diff --git a/codimd_export.py b/codimd_export.py
index 6824df7dee46dc551caf9a7956fcce597b9b6a7b..7f5acf97226170a9831172f3451acc33333a4782 100755
--- a/codimd_export.py
+++ b/codimd_export.py
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ def main(instance_url, session_id, export_to):
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main("https://md.inf.tu-dresden.de", get_sessionid(), "codimd-documents")
+    main("https://md.inf.tu-dresden.de", get_sessionid("connect.sid"), "codimd-documents")
diff --git a/common.py b/common.py
index 75bf5414fa2aff1e43f168942b788958ef735e64..cd26bcdf9e5be883083d2c963d9dca8362b6620e 100644
--- a/common.py
+++ b/common.py
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ else:
     getpass = input
 
 
-def get_sessionid():
+def get_sessionid(cookie_key):
     """Ask the user for the session id, if it's not configured as an envvar."""
-    sid = getpass("Please provide your CodiMD session id (connect.sid cookie): ")
+    sid = getpass(f"Please provide your CodiMD session id ({cookie_key} cookie): ")
     if sid.startswith("s%3A"):
         return sid
     raise SystemExit(f"error: the supplied session id seems to be malformed")