htmlLinks.py

# To run this, download the BeautifulSoup zip file
# http://www.py4e.com/code3/bs4.zip
# or pip install beautifulsoup4 to ensure you have the latest version
# and unzip it in the same directory as this file

import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import ssl # defaults to certificate verification and most secure protocol (now TLS)

# Ignore SSL/TLS certificate errors
ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

count = 0
url = input('Enter - ') # http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Corah.html
anchorTagCount = int(input('Enter count: ')) #7
anchorTagPosition = int(input('Enter position: ')) #18

while count < anchorTagCount:
    print('Retrieving URL: ', url)
    html = urllib.request.urlopen(url, context=ctx).read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    tags = soup('a')
    for i, tag in enumerate(tags):
        if i == anchorTagPosition - 1:
            url = tag.get('href', None)
            break
        else:
            continue
    count += 1
print('URL: ', url)