title: BeautifulSoup: how to scrape meta tag description content
body: <p>i am trying to scrape the contents of a website's meta description.</p>
  
  <p>example: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name="description" content="This is the home page meta description."&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the output that i'm looking for is: "<strong>This is the home page meta description.</strong>"</p>
  
  <p>my code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>raw_html = simple_get(companyUrl)
  html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'html.parser')
  x = html.select('meta', {'name' : 'description'})  ## this line errors out
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can someone point me in the right direction?</p>
  
  <p>(also - is it my imagination, or are BeautifulSoup tutorials/documentation not up to the level of other languages/applications?)</p>