Yes.

On YouTube, open the video you want the transcript for and in the description, click "Show transcript".

Currently, no.

However, I'm looking into adding the ability to search monthly reports, commlinks, roadmap roundups, and other official resources that may be of interest. This will take some time due to other obligations, so please be patient and check back on this question occasionally, as I'll update this when I have more info.

Unfortunately, no.

The way this site works is that all relevant video info on the Star Citizen channel is stored in my database and updated automatically at regular intervals. This is to avoid quickly using up all the daily quota permitted by the Youtube Data API, and to avoid lengthy response times during the retrieval of all captions matching a search query. I currently don't have the resources to solve this problem in a way that would allow for more general use of this tool, but the good news is the source code for this site is publicly available on Github under the MIT License, so feel free to fork and adapt the code however you'd like.

The other factor is that I'd eventually like to include additional Star Citizen-specific resources, and with this in mind, any future version of this site designed for more general use would have to be under a different domain.

Currently the video database is updated about once per week. Because of this, you may notice the quantity of views, likes, and comments displayed next to each video result are different than what Youtube says when you open the video on that site. Also, the most recent videos (within 1 week) may not be available right away.

The site content itself is updated as frequently as I am able to complete, test, and implement improvements.

It's possible that what you're looking for may have been mentioned in a monthly report, commlink, or some other resource that isn't a video.

If you're sure this isn't the case, the captions relating to your query may not exist or have been transcribed incorrectly. Check out the awesome SC Dev Segment Mega Index, created by a fellow member of the Star Citizen community, for more detailed video info. There you can find videos organized by subject, the particular developers featured in each video, and more.

When matching captions are found, they also include the previous and next lines in the transcript. For better clarity and readability, I've separated these lines using the dashes.

Please submit all feedback to [email protected], with the subject 'Starchives Feedback' so I can get back to you easily if necessary.

Alternatively, you can use the contact area below to send me a message easily and anonymously.

The captions take up a large amount of space relative to all other data retrieved. Because a high volume of data is sent from the database to the server and then from the server to the user, response times quickly get noticeably worse as more results are returned. However, the actual search that occurs on the database is fairly optimized due to the specialized full-text search indexing offered by Postgres.

Additionally, you may experience worse response times while there's heavy traffic on the site. For this reason, the amount of results per page is capped at 10, and the total amount of results is retrieved asynchronously from the page results to ensure that response times are kept as low as possible.