Stream-It

does that read necessarily modify the bound istream?

Yes.

istream_iterator is a convenience class that allows one to treat istream objects as though they are containers such as a std::vector or an array.

Underneath, the istream is the object used to read from the stream. And yes, reading from a stream does modify an istream. How else would the istream keep track of internal state to indicate whether the attempt to read was successful or not, how many characters were read, etc.?

Since you need a non-const istream objects to read, it make no sense to be able to construct a istream_iterator from const istream objects.

The query that returns 13 results, uses tbs param to specify date limits and not inline query prima:14-01-2020 dopo:14-01-2020. googlesearch supports tbs and there is even a helper function get_tbs you can use and pass datetime.date from and to. You also have to specify country to be countryIT as you have in your query.

The whole working script:

I think your problem is that the selector li.js-stream-item is a bit too broad and includes unwanted elements. Here is what I get when selecting by js-stream-item class:

As you can see, the first element will not contain any hrefs you are looking for. Solve that by restricting your filter:

In Python, indentation is used to delimit blocks of code. This is different from many other languages that use curly braces {} to delimit blocks such as Java, Javascript, and C. Because of this, Python users must pay close attention to when and how they indent their code because whitespace matters.

When Python encounters a problem with the indentation of your program, it either raises an exception called IndentationError or TabError.[1]

In your case, this is the issue:

To remove the b's, you'd want to do something like:

str_tweet = tweet_text.decode('utf-8')

To get rid of the hyperlinks at the end you could do something like this, which is quick and dirty:

only_tweet = str_tweet.split('https://')[0]

And then of course change your write statement to point to the new variable. This will result in output like:

'Van crash in south-east Iran kills 28 Afghan nationals'

instead of

b'Van crash in south-east Iran kills 28 Afghan nationalshttps://bbc.in/2qcsg9P\xc2\xa0'

Yes you can only use the streambuf iterators to read "characters", since it gets characters directly from the buffer. There's no formatted input involved which means it can not convert the data.

So I believe I've found a solution to my issue. It's not exactly the cleanest solution ever, but it seems to get the job done. Basically, I've put the task inside of a setInterval() function and so it will now complete the task every 5 seconds and will scroll to the bottom after 15 tasks. This allows it to get an updated list of all of the elements every time it runs. Here is the code for anyone curious: