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One of the things that frustrated me as a rookie GM learning Pathfinder was that it was so difficult to find monsters that fit a concept & CR that I was looking for. With the sheer amount of content out there (five bestiaries by the time I started playing), the perfect monster for a particular encounter was probably out there, but I didn't really have a way to comprehensively search for it. Now that we're on the eve of Starfinder, I'm trying to think up some low-effort tools that would be helpful to inexperienced GMs and put them together myself (emphasis on low-effort; I'm no programmer).
In that vein, I've thrown together what could become a simple Monster Database in Google Sheets, using the stat blocks from First Contact as an example.
When you open the spreadsheet, hit the Filter button near the top left (next to the printer icon) to put your own temporary filter on the database (if you're spreadsheet-literate, skip to the next paragraph). Now you can use the filter icons in each column to weed out monsters you're not interested in, not unlike online shopping. For example, you can use the filters to find all monsters with a CR of 4, low-light vision, and a climb speed, or combatants with a CR between 3 and 7 that speak common, or large-sized creatures that deal ranged damage against KAC and have a bluff modifier of at least +10. If this is a new concept for you, (1) this help page goes into filters in more detail, and (2) welcome to the wonderful and exciting world of spreadsheets!
I've included all the info I thought I would need to search by. If this might be useful to you and there's a column you'd like to see included, let me know. I cut out some attributes (like Init. mod) because I couldn't see them being a useful metric and this thing is wide enough as is.
I hope to expand and update this sheet as the APs and Alien Archive come out.
P.S. - as soon as I get my hands on the CRB, I plan to do something similar for spells and equipment as well.
Super ambitious! I'm saving this link.
Nice! I hope you keep this up! I can see this being very useful and its the perfect time to get it rolling.