Andreas, How about writing a wrapper script that ansible can call and then populate the results into a variable to use with get_url.
wget -O - http://www.example.com/software/latest/ | grep zip | cut -d\> -f 2 | sed -e 's!</a!!g'|sort -u |tail -1 On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 2:02:49 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Liu wrote: > > +1 > I'm interested in something like this as well. Thanks! > > On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 11:27:38 AM UTC-5, Andres Silva wrote: >> >> Im writing a playbook to install the latest version of a software. The >> latest version will always be in a url like this >> http://www.example.com/software/latest But the files in there will have >> different names that will append the version of the software. So the >> content of that URL location will look like this >> >> http://www.example.com/software/latest >> software.1.1.zip >> >> Every so often there will be a new version of the software released and >> the file name will change . I dont want to have to change the playbook, >> every time the file name changes. And I dont want to keep track of this in >> a variable. I just want it to pull the latest every time it runs. >> >> - name: download new software >> get_url: url=http://www.example.com/software/latest dest=/opt/software.zip >> mode=0755 >> >> Is there a way to recursively pull all the files there or maybe use a >> wild card like *.zip >> >> I know I can do it with wget by shelling out. But I was wondering if >> there was a way of doing this with the Ansible module >> >> wget -r https://www.example.com/files/latest/ -nd -P ~/Desktop/test/ -A >> zip >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/713b2beb-bf42-4aa5-9177-de883e122827%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
