How to manipulate a local text file from an HTML page
There is many ways to do this 
Here is the easiest 3

Use JavaScript 

2 install wampserver or similar and use php o modify the file
3 don't use te browser to delete and instead use a bat file to open the browser and remove the link from the text file
I've generated an HTML file that sits on my local disk, and which I can access through my browser. The HTML file is basically a list of links to external websites. The HTML file is generated from a local text file, which is itself a list of links to the remote sites.
When I click on one of the links in the HTML document, as well the browser loading the relevant site (in a new tab), I want to remove the site from the list of sites in the local text file.
I've looked at Javascript, Flask (Python), and CherryPy (Python), but I'm not sure these are valid solutions.
Could someone advise on where I should look next? I'd prefer to do this with Python somehow - because it's what I'm familar with - but I'm open to anything.
Note that I'm running on a Linux box.