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How to retrieve Meta tags via Javascript?

I need to extract the META keyword contents via Javascript, and I'm having issues.  The code I'm using doesn't seem to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

function getMetaKeywords() {
    var keywords = '';
    var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
    if (metas) {
        for (var x=0,y=metas.length; x<y; x++) {
            if (metas[x].name.toLowerCase() == "keywords") {
                keywords += metas[x].content;
            }
        }
    }
    return keywords != '' ? keywords : false;
}

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here is a simple jquery one liner to do the same:-
var metaContent = $('meta').attr("content");
var metaName = $('meta').attr('name');

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