Note
This module is part of ansible-base
and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short module name uri even without specifying the collections:
keyword. Despite that, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.
New in version 1.1: of ansible.builtin
Note
This module has a corresponding action plugin.
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
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attributes string added in 2.3 of ansible.builtin | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string.aliases: attr | |
body raw | The body of the http request/response to the web service. If body_format is set to 'json' it will take an already formatted JSON string or convert a data structure into JSON.If body_format is set to 'form-urlencoded' it will convert a dictionary or list of tuples into an 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' string. (Added in v2.7)If body_format is set to 'form-multipart' it will convert a dictionary into 'multipart/form-multipart' body. (Added in v2.10) | |
body_format string added in 2.0 of ansible.builtin |
| The serialization format of the body. When set to json , form-multipart , or form-urlencoded , encodes the body argument, if needed, and automatically sets the Content-Type header accordingly.As of 2.3 it is possible to override the `Content-Type` header, when set to json or form-urlencoded via the headers option.The 'Content-Type' header cannot be overridden when using form-multipart
form-urlencoded was added in v2.7.form-multipart was added in v2.10. |
ca_path path added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin | PEM formatted file that contains a CA certificate to be used for validation | |
client_cert path added in 2.4 of ansible.builtin | PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication. This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, client_key is not required | |
client_key path added in 2.4 of ansible.builtin | PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication. If client_cert contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required. | |
creates path | A filename, when it already exists, this step will not be run. | |
dest path | A path of where to download the file to (if desired). If dest is a directory, the basename of the file on the remote server will be used. | |
follow_redirects string |
| Whether or not the URI module should follow redirects. all will follow all redirects. safe will follow only "safe" redirects, where "safe" means that the client is only doing a GET or HEAD on the URI to which it is being redirected. none will not follow any redirects. Note that yes and no choices are accepted for backwards compatibility, where yes is the equivalent of all and no is the equivalent of safe . yes and no are deprecated and will be removed in some future version of Ansible. |
force boolean |
| If yes do not get a cached copy.Alias thirsty has been deprecated and will be removed in 2.13.aliases: thirsty |
force_basic_auth boolean |
| Force the sending of the Basic authentication header upon initial request. The library used by the uri module only sends authentication information when a webservice responds to an initial request with a 401 status. Since some basic auth services do not properly send a 401, logins will fail. |
group string | Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
headers dictionary added in 2.1 of ansible.builtin | Add custom HTTP headers to a request in the format of a YAML hash. As of 2.3 supplying Content-Type here will override the header generated by supplying json or form-urlencoded for body_format. | |
http_agent string | Default: "ansible-httpget" | Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs. |
method string | Default: "GET" | The HTTP method of the request or response. In more recent versions we do not restrict the method at the module level anymore but it still must be a valid method accepted by the service handling the request. |
mode raw | The permissions the resulting file or directory should have. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like 0644 or 01777 ) or quote it (like '644' or '1777' ) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number.Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r ).If mode is not specified and the destination file does not exist, the default umask on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created file.If mode is not specified and the destination file does exist, the mode of the existing file will be used.Specifying mode is the best way to ensure files are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details. | |
owner string | Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
remote_src boolean added in 2.7 of ansible.builtin |
| If no , the module will search for the src on the controller node.If yes , the module will search for the src on the managed (remote) node. |
removes path | A filename, when it does not exist, this step will not be run. | |
return_content boolean |
| Whether or not to return the body of the response as a "content" key in the dictionary result no matter it succeeded or failed. Independently of this option, if the reported Content-type is "application/json", then the JSON is always loaded into a key called json in the dictionary results. |
selevel string | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range .When set to _default , it will use the level portion of the policy if available. | |
serole string | The role part of the SELinux file context. When set to _default , it will use the role portion of the policy if available. | |
setype string | The type part of the SELinux file context. When set to _default , it will use the type portion of the policy if available. | |
seuser string | The user part of the SELinux file context. By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.When set to _default , it will use the user portion of the policy if available. | |
src path added in 2.7 of ansible.builtin | Path to file to be submitted to the remote server. Cannot be used with body. | |
status_code list / elements=integer | Default: [200] | A list of valid, numeric, HTTP status codes that signifies success of the request. |
timeout integer | Default: 30 | The socket level timeout in seconds |
unix_socket path added in 2.8 of ansible.builtin | Path to Unix domain socket to use for connection | |
unsafe_writes boolean added in 2.2 of ansible.builtin |
| Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. |
url string / required | HTTP or HTTPS URL in the form (http|https)://host.domain[:port]/path | |
url_password string | A password for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication. aliases: password | |
url_username string | A username for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication. aliases: user | |
use_gssapi boolean added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin |
| Use GSSAPI to perform the authentication, typically this is for Kerberos or Kerberos through Negotiate authentication. Requires the Python library gssapi to be installed. Credentials for GSSAPI can be specified with url_username/url_password or with the GSSAPI env var KRB5CCNAME that specified a custom Kerberos credential cache.NTLM authentication is not supported even if the GSSAPI mech for NTLM has been installed. |
use_proxy boolean |
| If no , it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts. |
validate_certs boolean added in 1.9.2 of ansible.builtin |
| If no , SSL certificates will not be validated.This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.Prior to 1.9.2 the code defaulted to no . |
Note
See also
The official documentation on the ansible.builtin.get_url module.
The official documentation on the ansible.windows.win_uri module.
- name: Check that you can connect (GET) to a page and it returns a status 200 uri: url: http://www.example.com - name: Check that a page returns a status 200 and fail if the word AWESOME is not in the page contents uri: url: http://www.example.com return_content: yes register: this failed_when: "'AWESOME' not in this.content" - name: Create a JIRA issue uri: url: https://your.jira.example.com/rest/api/2/issue/ user: your_username password: your_pass method: POST body: "{{ lookup('file','issue.json') }}" force_basic_auth: yes status_code: 201 body_format: json - name: Login to a form based webpage, then use the returned cookie to access the app in later tasks uri: url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/index.php method: POST body_format: form-urlencoded body: name: your_username password: your_password enter: Sign in status_code: 302 register: login - name: Login to a form based webpage using a list of tuples uri: url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/index.php method: POST body_format: form-urlencoded body: - [ name, your_username ] - [ password, your_password ] - [ enter, Sign in ] status_code: 302 register: login - name: Upload a file via multipart/form-multipart uri: url: https://httpbin.org/post method: POST body_format: form-multipart body: file1: filename: /bin/true mime_type: application/octet-stream file2: content: text based file content filename: fake.txt mime_type: text/plain text_form_field: value - name: Connect to website using a previously stored cookie uri: url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/dashboard.php method: GET return_content: yes headers: Cookie: "{{ login.cookies_string }}" - name: Queue build of a project in Jenkins uri: url: http://{{ jenkins.host }}/job/{{ jenkins.job }}/build?token={{ jenkins.token }} user: "{{ jenkins.user }}" password: "{{ jenkins.password }}" method: GET force_basic_auth: yes status_code: 201 - name: POST from contents of local file uri: url: https://httpbin.org/post method: POST src: file.json - name: POST from contents of remote file uri: url: https://httpbin.org/post method: POST src: /path/to/my/file.json remote_src: yes - name: Create workspaces in Log analytics Azure uri: url: https://www.mms.microsoft.com/Embedded/Api/ConfigDataSources/LogManagementData/Save method: POST body_format: json status_code: [200, 202] return_content: true headers: Content-Type: application/json x-ms-client-workspace-path: /subscriptions/{{ sub_id }}/resourcegroups/{{ res_group }}/providers/microsoft.operationalinsights/workspaces/{{ w_spaces }} x-ms-client-platform: ibiza x-ms-client-auth-token: "{{ token_az }}" body: - name: Pause play until a URL is reachable from this host uri: url: "http://192.0.2.1/some/test" follow_redirects: none method: GET register: _result until: _result.status == 200 retries: 720 # 720 * 5 seconds = 1hour (60*60/5) delay: 5 # Every 5 seconds # There are issues in a supporting Python library that is discussed in # https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52705 where a proxy is defined # but you want to bypass proxy use on CIDR masks by using no_proxy - name: Work around a python issue that doesn't support no_proxy envvar uri: follow_redirects: none validate_certs: false timeout: 5 url: "http://{{ ip_address }}:{{ port | default(80) }}" register: uri_data failed_when: false changed_when: false vars: ip_address: 192.0.2.1 environment: | { {% for no_proxy in (lookup('env', 'no_proxy') | regex_replace('\s*,\s*', ' ') ).split() %} {% if no_proxy | regex_search('\/') and no_proxy | ipaddr('net') != '' and no_proxy | ipaddr('net') != false and ip_address | ipaddr(no_proxy) is not none and ip_address | ipaddr(no_proxy) != false %} 'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}' {% elif no_proxy | regex_search(':') != '' and no_proxy | regex_search(':') != false and no_proxy == ip_address + ':' + (port | default(80)) %} 'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}:{{ port | default(80) }}' {% elif no_proxy | ipaddr('host') != '' and no_proxy | ipaddr('host') != false and no_proxy == ip_address %} 'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}' {% elif no_proxy | regex_search('^(\*|)\.') != '' and no_proxy | regex_search('^(\*|)\.') != false and no_proxy | regex_replace('\*', '') in ip_address %} 'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}' {% endif %} {% endfor %} }
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
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content string | status not in status_code or return_content is true | The response body content. Sample: {} |
cookies dictionary added in 2.4 of ansible.builtin | on success | The cookie values placed in cookie jar. Sample: {'SESSIONID': '[SESSIONID]'} |
cookies_string string added in 2.6 of ansible.builtin | on success | The value for future request Cookie headers. Sample: SESSIONID=[SESSIONID] |
elapsed integer | on success | The number of seconds that elapsed while performing the download. Sample: 23 |
msg string | always | The HTTP message from the request. Sample: OK (unknown bytes) |
redirected boolean | on success | Whether the request was redirected. |
status integer | always | The HTTP status code from the request. Sample: 200 |
url string | always | The actual URL used for the request. Sample: https://www.ansible.com/ |
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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/ansible/builtin/uri_module.html