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

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• See Also
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

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

See Also

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:
      key1: one
      key2: two

- 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 with checksum url (sha256)
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    checksum: sha256:http://example.com/path/sha256sum.txt

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

- name: < Fetch file that requires authentication.
        username/password only available since 2.8, in older versions you need to use url_username/url_password
  get_url:
    url: http://example.com/path/file.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    username: bar
    password: '{{ mysecret }}'

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens)