Clicking link using beautifulsoup in python

BeautifulSoup is an HTML parser.

Further discussion really depends on the concrete situation you are in and the complexity of the particular web page.

If you need to interact with a web-page: submit forms, click buttons, scroll etc - you need to use a tool that utilizes a real browser, like selenium.

In certain situations, for example, if there is no javascript involved in submitting a form, mechanize would also work for you.

And, sometimes you can handle it by simply following the link with urllib2 or requests.