[Docs] How to Retrieve Token Metadata in 2024?

[mahnunchik]

Motivation

It would be nice to have official documentation for: what is the simplest way to retrieve token metadata such as name, symbol, and decimals in 2024?

• The @solana/spl-token-registry is deprecated and lacks new tokens.
• The @metaplex-foundation/mpl-token-metadata has been updated from version 2 to version 3, resulting in complex dependencies to obtain minimal token information.

Details

For example, tokens:

• 2b1kV6DkPAnxd5ixfnxCpjxmKwqjjaYmCZfHsFu24GXo - PYUSD
• Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB - USDT

[github-actions]

Hi @mahnunchik,

Thanks for your question!

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Questions like yours deserve a purpose-built Q&A forum. Unless there exists evidence that this is a bug with the Solana JavaScript SDK itself, please post your question to the Solana Stack Exchange using this link: https://solana.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

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[steveluscher]

You might like to encourage an answer on this topic on Stack Exchange, or to ask for an addition to https://github.com/solana-developers/solana-cookbook.

[mahnunchik]

@steveluscher thanks

solana-developers/solana-cookbook#611

[github-actions]

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