noobient.github_release

Synopsys

This role lets you find the asset URLs of the releases of GitHub projects.

Parameters

Name	Required	Example	Description
owner	yes	SteamRE	GitHub repo owner.
repo	yes	DepotDownloader	GitHub repo name.
prefix	yes	depotdownloader-	Pattern the asset filename must start with.
suffix	yes	.zip	Pattern the asset filename must end with.
tag	no	v2.7.1	GitHub release tag. If omitted, latest is used.
ratelimit	no	false	If false, don't check if GitHub rate limit is reached, and don't wait for it to reset. The request will most likely fail.
verbose	no	true	If true, print more diagnostic messages.
github_token	no	github_pat_ABCD1234...	If set, GitHub API requests are authenticated using your token. See below for details.

GitHub Token

GitHub's API has very stringent rate limits, 60 requests per hour at the time of writing, so it is very easy to deplete, and it's often not feasible to wait hours for playbooks to complete. For this reason, you can specify your GitHub personal access token, which increases this limit to 5000 per hour. To acquire such a token, go to:

Fine-grained personal access tokens

You should restrict this token as much as possible, so the recommended scope is:

• Repository access: Public Repositories (read-only)
• Account permissions: None

The other main point is how you feed this token into Ansible. Never push this token into public, or shared repositories. Save it into a Git-ignored variable file, e.g.:

---
github_token: github_pat_ABCD1234...

Or specify it from the command line, e.g.:

ansible-playbook foo.yml -e "github_token=github_pat_ABCD1234..."

Examples

- include_role:
    name: noobient.github_release
  vars:
    owner: 'SteamRE'
    repo: 'DepotDownloader'
    prefix: 'depotdownloader-'
    suffix: '.zip'
    verbose: true

- include_role:
    name: noobient.github_release
  vars:
    owner: 'wp-cli'
    repo: 'wp-cli'
    tag: 'v2.7.1'
    prefix: 'wp-cli-'
    suffix: '.phar'
    ratelimit: false

Return Values

Key	Type	Example	Description
github_release.url	string	https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/releases/download/v2.7.1/wp-cli-2.7.1.phar	Download URL for the matching asset.

Support

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Ubuntu 20.04	✅
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