Credits & Acknowledgements

The data, services and technology behind s&box Explorer.

About s&box Explorer

s&box Explorer is an independent website for browsing, searching and comparing s&box packages: games, maps, libraries and more. It adds player history, charts, organisation and player profiles, and an MCP server for developer tools.

Independent project. s&box is a game platform made by Facepunch. s&box Explorer is a separate site built on Facepunch's public API. It is not an official Facepunch or s&box product, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Facepunch Studios.

Built by

Patrick Jr

Creator and developer of s&box Explorer.

Explorer profile Steam

Data & services

Explorer relies on these services. The label shows what each one is used for.

Facepunch

Data

Packages, organisations, players, reviews and leaderboards come from the public s&box API. Documentation is read from sbox.game and media from the s&box CDN.

sbox.watch

Data

Player history from before Explorer began recording its own, the one year and all-time ranges, live dedicated servers and activity statistics on game and organisation pages.

Data provided by sbox.watch

sboxskins.gg

Data

Skin prices, trends and scores in the Skins section.

Steam

Sign-in

Steam OpenID for signing in, the Steam Web API for player profiles, and Steam-hosted avatars and images.

Ko-fi

Donations

Donations that help cover running costs.

Cloudflare

Infrastructure

CDN and edge caching in front of the site.

Technology

Foundation

PHP Server-side application, no framework
PostgreSQL Primary database
SQLite Cache and local data stores
JavaScript and CSS Hand-written, no front-end framework

Libraries, icons and fonts

Chart.js Analytics charts
highlight.js Code highlighting in the knowledge base
Tippy.js and Popper Tooltips and popovers
Swagger UI Interactive API documentation
Font Awesome Free Icons on package, organisation and profile pages Icons CC BY 4.0, fonts SIL OFL 1.1, code MIT
Material Symbols Interface icons
Sen Headline typeface
Poppins Body typeface

Content filter word lists

Content moderation uses a word list merged from these public lists. Duplicates were merged and entries shorter than three characters were removed.

Thanks

To Facepunch for building s&box and for the public API that makes this site possible, and to sbox.watch and sboxskins.gg for the community data they publish.

Corrections, attribution requests or takedown requests: message Patrick Jr on Steam.