Roll20 uses cookies to improve your experience on our site. Cookies enable you to enjoy certain features, social sharing functionality, and tailor message and display ads to your interests on our site and others. They also help us understand how our site is being used. By continuing to use our site, you consent to our use of cookies. Update your cookie preferences .
×
Create a free account

Asset Search Won't Web Search with Multiple Keywords

1478266967

Edited 1478267203
Any time I do a search for assets to use as either tokens, Maps, or 'Everything', the search will not return ANY results from the web when using multiple keywords. For example, when I search for "red" I get multiple results of the color red. If I search for "crystal" it returned multiple crystal results. But if I search for "red crystal" it can't find anything at all. It will return results from the Premium, Purchased and Uploaded assets, but not from the web. Same thing if I search for "skull" or "clipart" but not "skull clipart". Same thing if I search for "light" and "blue" but not "blue light". Even if I follow the search parameters help built in: The search matches your keywords with names, tags, or the folder names your assets are saved in. Searching with more than one keyword is exclusive, helping you refine your search to only assets that match both words.  red dragon It returns no results from the web. This has been happening for, at the very least, a few months or more.
1478290732
Gen Kitty
Forum Champion
As the Devs said over here : After doing some digging, this is what's the cause of this issue: 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. When things change it will be announced, but for now we're stuck with what we have.
Thank you for the response.