BeautifulSoup: Find description meta tag [Example]
Syntax
soup.find('meta', attrs={"name" : "description"})
Example
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# Html source
html_source = '''
<head>
<title>BeautifulSoup: rel attribute Example</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content="Learn how to get rel attribute" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://pyonlycode.com//post/beautifulsoup-rel-attribute-example/" />
</head>
'''
# Parsing
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_source, 'html.parser')
# Find meta description
metas = soup.find('meta', attrs={"name" : "description"})
# Print
print(metas)
Output:
<meta content="Learn how to get rel attribute" name="description"/>