Sources and credits
Last updated: October 2, 2026
FoxShade Fix It doesn't write the results you see. Each one is a title and a short excerpt from another website, with a link to the original. Here is where they come from. Thank you to every person who wrote them.
Stack Exchange (answer archive and live search)
Questions from Super User, Ask Ubuntu, Ask Different (Apple), Android Enthusiasts, Arqade, Raspberry Pi, Photography, Information Security, Web Applications, Hardware and Software Recommendations. Our searchable index (titles and the start of each question) was built from the Stack Exchange data dump published on the Internet Archive, downloaded October 1, 2026; live results come from the Stack Exchange API. This content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by its authors. We shortened it to an excerpt; every result links to the original question, where the authors are named. We don't copy full answers onto this site.
Live search sources
- iFixit repair guides and answers, via the iFixit API. Content CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 by iFixit and its authors.
- Device and software forums run on Discourse (Framework, Level1Techs, Ubuntu, KDE, Fedora, GNOME, EndeavourOS, Fairphone, /e/OS, F-Droid, Home Assistant, OctoPrint, Pi-hole, Privacy Guides, pixls.us), using each forum's public search. Posts belong to their authors.
- GitHub issues, via the GitHub REST API.
- Hacker News, via the HN Search API by Algolia.
- Lemmy posts from lemmy.world and the communities it follows.
- Marginalia Search, an independent search engine for the small web, via its public API. Results CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and MDN Web Docs (CC BY-SA 2.5).
- Apple Support (support.apple.com) and Microsoft Learn (learn.microsoft.com): official documentation. We keep an index of Apple Support page titles (from Apple's public sitemap and guide contents) and use Microsoft Learn's public search. Answers quote short passages from these pages with a link; the text belongs to Apple and Microsoft.
- NIST National Vulnerability Database for security questions, via the NVD API (public domain). This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Brave Search web results (manufacturer support pages, community forums such as Reddit and Apple Community, blogs), via the Brave Search API. Results are shown as found, never stored, and marked “via Brave Search”.
- Shodan CVEDB for security questions, via cvedb.shodan.io (free for non-commercial use).
- YouTube, only when video results are turned on, via YouTube API Services (see our privacy policy).
Every source, its limits and its status
Checked once a day with a test search. Counts of what each source covers are in our coverage report; FoxShade only shows results that pass its technology and category checks.
| Source | Type | Coverage | Limits & cost | Mode | Last check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answer archive | local index | 722,415 questions from 11 Stack Exchange sites (titles, start of question, links) | None (static files). $0. | on this site | — |
| Service manuals (Internet Archive) | docs API | Scanned maker service / hardware maintenance manuals on the Internet Archive; asked only when the question names a model | Not published; one search request per question, page text cached 24 h. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Stack Exchange (live) | Q&A API | All questions on Super User, Ask Different, Android, Ask Ubuntu and more (see docs/COVERAGE.md) | 300 requests/day per IP without a key; 10,000/day with a free key. $0. | live | no check yet |
| iFixit | repair guides API | Repair guides, device wikis and iFixit Answers | Not published. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Device forums | forum search | 15 public forums (Framework, Level1Techs, Ubuntu, KDE, Fedora, GNOME, Fairphone, Home Assistant…) | Per forum, not published. $0. | live | no check yet |
| GitHub issues | code search API | Public issues on GitHub | 10 searches/min without a token, 30/min with one. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Lemmy | discussion search API | Posts on lemmy.world and communities it follows | Not published. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Hacker News | discussion search API | Hacker News stories and comments | 10,000 requests/hour per IP. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Marginalia (small web) | web search API | Independent search index of the small and non-commercial web | Shared public key; often slow or busy. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Apple Support | docs API | Apple Support articles (en-us sitemap) and the Mac, iPhone, iPad and accessory user guides; titles only are stored | None for the index; pages read politely (robots.txt allows them). $0. | on this site | — |
| Microsoft Learn | docs API | Microsoft's official Windows documentation and troubleshooting articles | Not published; polite use. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Wikipedia | docs API | English Wikipedia (only technology articles are shown) | Polite use, descriptive User-Agent. $0. | live | no check yet |
| MDN Web Docs | docs API | Web platform documentation | Not published. $0. | live | no check yet |
| NIST vulnerability database | vulnerability database | Published CVE records | 5 requests/30 s without a key. $0. | live | no check yet |
| Shodan CVEDB | vulnerability database | CVE records with summaries, CVSS and EPSS scores, updated daily | Not published. $0 (non-commercial). | live | no check yet |
| Brave Search (web) | web search API | Brave's independent web index: manufacturer support pages, Reddit threads, blogs, documentation | Hard caps in code: 25/day and 700/month (live site), 5/day and 50/month (local tests). $0 while under Brave's $5 monthly credit (about 1,000 requests); the caps keep usage at 750/month at most. | live | no check yet |
| YouTube | video API | YouTube videos (titles and descriptions) | About 100 searches/day on the free quota. $0 (free quota). | live | no check yet |
| Dailymotion | video API | Dailymotion videos (titles and descriptions) | Not published; results cached 6 hours. $0. | live | no check yet |
| PeerTube | video API | Public videos on indexed PeerTube sites (titles, descriptions, tags) | Not published; results cached 6 hours. $0. | live | no check yet |
Not included (yet)
Reddit's own API isn't used (it requires Reddit's approval); Reddit threads can still appear through Brave's web results. We never scrape websites or get around their rules.
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