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Art Library produces very few or no results

I've been running several games on here for about 4 years now (premium member the whole time, my subscription is still active). I (and all my players) are using the latest version of Firefox (updated last week and again this morning), and I'm running the game on a Windows 10 machine. Everything was working just fine about a month ago, but all of a sudden I'm getting no results, or next to no results, for any of my searches in the Art Library. Things such as "village", "river", "star destroyer", "space station", and "stone wall" have produced literally no hits at all, either from the premium library or from the web, which seems very strange. Other searches, like "star wars", "sword", "red dragon", or "thug" produce 1 or 2 hits just from the premium library and nothing from the web. Searches for 'Maps, Tiles, and Textures' for very generic things like "forest", or "building" will produce .jpg-quality photographs of things like trees or doors, but certainly not game-ready maps. As this problem is recent and very specific, I feel like there was some kind of change that either I did, or did not keep up with, with the service. Is anyone else having this problem, with the Art Library being literally useless? Better yet, has anyone fixed it, and how? Thanks, Web Browser: Firefox Version: latest (I think it's 49.0.1) OS: Windows 10 Javascript: Yes Anti-Virus: McAfee Internet Security, updated 10/27 Add-ons or extensions: None These have all been the same (except the OS, was previously Win 7) the entire time we've been playing this game.
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Scott C.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Compendium Curator
Are these search terms that you've used before? According to Kristin, the web search results are actually cached from several years ago:&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4055149/multi-te" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4055149/multi-te</a>... not sure what would be causing the premium assets to not show (other than lack of content - which shouldn't be the case for at least some of your search terms)
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Tetsuo
Forum Champion
Back in the early days of Roll20, Google's search engine API was free and readily available to be used. This was utilized for our web search for the Art Library. At the time, Google had claimed that this would be a freely available asset for a long time. As you can probably guess where this story is going, they decided later to lock their API behind a very significant price tag. Nowadays, when someone runs searches in the art library, it's using search results that we scraped back when we still had the API available. Those search results are tied to the keywords that were searched with at the time. This list of compiled searches are nearly four years old now, and limited to the keywords that were utilized by a fraction of the userbase that we have now. Ideally, we would find another search engine API to utilize, but so far we haven't found one that is financially feasible to license. To access the Free Assets provided by Roll20, in the new Library interface: In-game go to your Art Library tab , Click on Premium Assets sub-tab , Look under the Free Assets subfolder here. There are dozens of folders organized with maps, tiles, and tokens, all free to use in games.