Adding my voice to this thread, years since it was first posted.

I know this is the kind of minor feature that someone designing D&D Beyond might put pretty far down the roadmap, in terms of priority. But I have to say, as a heavy user who's subscribed to D&D Beyond for literally years, this one specific issue is a nearly constant source of irritation.

The experience, as a user, is that any time I want to pull monster statblocks to build a dungeon in a hurry, I hit surprise paywalls and attempts to upsell me on content somewhere between 5 and 30 times.

This is in addition to the many, many source books I already own, and the subscription fees I pay on a regular basis. It's a constant little frictional bump of upselling that slowly eats away at my desire to use the platform.

I am literally begging for a "show only owned content" filter.

At the very least, can you add an icon to the collapsed entry bar that shows up during a search, which just indicates whether I own a piece of content or not? That's the real issue: I have given WOTC so much money over the years, I no longer remember which books I own, so I have to click the little expandable search entry over and over and over, only to meet paywalled content I do not own.

This also applies to the Sources menu on the main page. I just want to be able to find the adventures I own or the sourcebooks I want to access. 

At this point Van Richten's isn't even on the quick list. You have to go through all of the books to find it.

I'm having this issue! How do I figure out loot for my players if I can't even go through all the options I have without having more than half the search or content be things I do not own! This does not make me want to buy more content! Maybe if I saw how little content I had I would want to buy more! Or if I saw I don't have as many magic items as I wanted, I'd be okay, yea I need another book! But this way, it makes what I have super confusing and I might think I have something when I don't even own that piece of content!

The fact that this has been up here for so long and we still haven't seen it implemented makes me sad because I would literally shoot someone in the left nut for this feature.

No need to shoot any nuts. If you go back one page on this thread you'll see that I posted a solution. You can create yourself a bookmarklet which automatically sets the sources to whatever you want.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/55029-filters-for-showing-only-owned-content?comment=83

I'm not going to use a script to do what should have been implemented YEARS ago.  This is the lowest hanging fruit that there can be.  They do this to sell the new books.  But now that they've added all these new Monster books, it's been a nightmare to build encounters.  I can't believe we are still waiting on this.

Hey did anyone notice if you go to the Sources page it now shows "In Library" for books you own!?

So happy to see it, wish they had announced it!

Thank you for passing this along.

I look forward to them adding the same filter to magic items, creatures and all the other content we regularly access.

To be honest, at this point it can only be about business metrics.
Like, if you are going through the catalog of spells/monsters/etc to prepare your campaign/session and when you click it you see it's blocked, it probably compels some people to purchase the source book for that content, driving the purchases up.

There can always be some technical complications, but it's difficult to believe they haven't been able to work them out after four and a half years.

Yep.  Showing you content from books you don't own is advertising.  You're asking WotC to give up a system that literally shows you content that you, specifically, want but don't own and can't get without buying it from them.  This is never going to be a feature.

Sure would be cool if they did, though.

How is this a 4 year old thread and this hasn't been implemented yet? With the 2024 expansion and massive influx of 3rd party content, searching the base features of DDB is becoming increasingly frustrating.

This isn't a hard feature to implement. Give a dev a day to set up the parameters, test it out, set it live, and watch the entire DDB community sing their praises. Sheesh.

For anyone from WOTC reading, I haven't bought a single piece of new content since my first post in this thread. That includes the 5.5 materials. My plan at this stage is to keep an eye on your competitors and when I am done with my current 5.0 campaign, make the switch to 5.5 with one of them. Unless, of course, there are some changes such as those requested here that happen first.

I would even accept if they showed the search results of items you don't own, but would grey them out so you know that you're missing out. That might be enough of a compromise between us wanting a functional search engine, and them wanting to be able to advertise the stuff you don't own yet.

Five years and no fix yet. I think they're just blatantly ignoring us. Shouldn't take more than five minutes to implement. I will not be buying any future DNDB products, ever.

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I would even accept if they showed the search results of items you don't own, but would grey them out so you know that you're missing out. That might be enough of a compromise between us wanting a functional search engine, and them wanting to be able to advertise the stuff you don't own yet.

 Oooh, I like this! Too bad they will literally never add this feature (source: it's been 5 damn years).

The fact this is still not implemented is beyond a joke.

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Guess what! I've solved this! You can very easily create a bookmarklet which will automagically set the source filters to a preset list with a single click.

I described the process in full in this reddit post, but in case it disappears, here is the bookmarklet code:

javascript:(() => {
  url = new URL(location);
  url.searchParams.delete('filter-source');
  [1, 2, 3, 4, 27, 67, 85].forEach(i => url.searchParams.append('filter-source', i));
  document.location = url;
})()

Apologies for replying to this long-dead thread, but I figure if you've replied to it then you may want to know!

 I owe you my first born! :D

That might take a while by the way - possibly a timespan equivalent to the difference between you presenting your own solution and DnDBeyond implementing one of their own.

Simply put, not having it, without out your manually refining a search, is marketing.  Every time someone clicks a spell, monster, subclass, feat, that they don't own and it goes to the store page that is marketing.  And I don't see them ever changing that regardless of how convenient it would be for us users.   

Not that I like that fact, just being realistic, this isn't likely something they will ever change. 

There is a well-known diminishing return in how often you can bug people with marketing. This is an obvious dark pattern that should be called out, and the only thing I recommend you do is send them e-mails to their customer service with feedback.