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Free Assets not showing in Token Search

Hello, I'm struggling to find free assets while I'm searching for tokens. The only sections available for me are premium, web, or my own library. None of Devins tokens or anything are showing up!
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Ziechael
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Hi Marianne, are you not seeing the 'free assets' option in your library tab? Make sure you are on the 'premium assets' option rather than the 'my library' one. Could you supply a screenshot of your view?
I have actually found that the "free tokens" are oddly named. for example, there's ZERO results for Giant Spider, yet, there's CLEARLY a Giant Spider Creature in the Compendium, this informs me that the naming system in not as polished as it should be. I simply Google what I'm searching for by this point, I have given up on using the Asset Search almost entirely, it doesn't even Google appropriately, despite being "powered by Google"!
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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.