Ansible get_url with regex to fetch the latest github release from a repo

November 23, 2025

This is the best I’ve come up with so far to get_url within Ansible to fetch the latest release from a Github repository. To customize to your needs, change the url portion to point to your desired repo (this one points to Duplicacy) and then adjust the “linux_x64” to a substring from the release files to narrow down what file you want.


    # set export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES so it doesn't crash on mac
    - name: Download archive if newer
      ansible.builtin.get_url:
        url: "{{ lookup('url', 'https://api.github.com/repos/gilbertchen/duplicacy/releases/latest', split_lines=false) | regex_search('browser_download_url.*(?=.*linux_x64.*)\"(.*?)\"', '\\1') | first | trim }}"
        dest: "{{ download_path }}"
        mode: '0744'
      register: download_status

Last updated on November 23, 2025

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