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+title: "Tips and Tricks"
+description: "Some tips and best practises for using MAL2Go (optional)"
+weight: 4
+---
+
+These are some tips and best practises, and other notes for using MAL2Go. Following this is optional but might make your life easier!
+
+## Better ways to store/read auth tokens:
+
+- Use [godotenv](https://github.com/joho/godotenv) to read the auth token from a config file
+- [Viper](https://github.com/spf13/viper) can do the same thing, but can also write to the file easily; also with viper you can locate the file anywhere on your system
+- [go-keyring](https://github.com/zalando/go-keyring) can be used to read/write the secret token to the system's keyring. It is by far the most secure way but only works on some systems (windows, macos and linux with gnome-keyring)
+
+## SearchManga and SearchAnime functions are quirky!
+
+While you *can* specify fields to these functions, in order to get specific data, searching for some reason only returns limited fields most of the times.
+It's not like it just doesn't support all of the fields but many times it just.. doesn't. So if you want to search *and* get ALL fields about an anime, or just
+be sure that the data is complete, use [`SearchAnime`](/docs/mal2go/v4/anime/search-for-an-anime/)/[`SearchManga`](/docs/mal2go/v4/manga/search-for-a-manga/) 
+just to get the ID. After that, use [`GetAnimeById`](/docs/mal2go/v4/anime/get-anime-by-id/)/[`GetMangaById`](/docs/mal2go/v4/manga/get-manga-by-id/).
+
+## macli has a good example on how to generate your own tokens with go
+
+MAL2Go was made for my other project, [macli](https://github.com/MikunoNaka/macli). 
+Macli's `auth` package uses [`github.com/zalando/go-keyring`](https://github.com/zalando/go-keyring)
+and the `net/http` package to prompt the user and generate an auth token with the given client id.
+
+You can look at [the code](https://github.com/MikunoNaka/macli/tree/master/auth) to see how it works.