get_url - Downloads files from HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP to node

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
  • Support
  • Author

Synopsis

• Downloads files from HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP to the remote server. The remote server must have direct access to the remote resource.
• By default, if an environment variable <protocol>_proxy is set on the target host, requests will be sent through that proxy. This behaviour can be overridden by setting a variable for this task (see setting the environment), or by using the use_proxy option.
• HTTP redirects can redirect from HTTP to HTTPS so you should be sure that your proxy environment for both protocols is correct.
• From Ansible 2.4 when run with --check, it will do a HEAD request to validate the URL but will not download the entire file or verify it against hashes.
• For Windows targets, use the win_get_url module instead.

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Download foo.conf
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    mode: 0440

- name: Download file and force basic auth
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    force_basic_auth: yes

- name: Download file with custom HTTP headers
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    headers: 'key:value,key:value'

- name: Download file with check (sha256)
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    checksum: sha256:b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c

- name: Download file with check (md5)
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    checksum: md5:66dffb5228a211e61d6d7ef4a86f5758

- name: Download file from a file path
  get_url:
    url: file:///tmp/afile.txt
    dest: /tmp/afilecopy.txt

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens)