How I Built an Open Source Publishing Workflow for Chess Streamers

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A static-site pipeline that turns chess live-streams into searchable session pages with games, chat replay, transcripts, thumbnails, analytics, and SEO metadata.


Livestreams Are Bad Archives

Livestreams are great in the moment and surprisingly weak as archives.

After a stream ends, the recording usually becomes a long video with a title, a thumbnail, and maybe a description. Watching while it’s happening is fine; it’s fun to be experiencing something together with the streamer, but later, it’s bad for searching, linking, and learning from specific moments. Who has the time for re-watching a long and unedited session later? Even at 2x speeds it can be unbearable.

I ran into this problem in a very personal way. Earlier this year, I got back into chess after years of treating it as a casual family game. I started practicing every day, opened accounts on online chess sites, fell in love with Lichess, and...

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