{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1443","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1443/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1443/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1443/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1443","id":82446277,"number":1443,"title":"[Feature] url support for unarchive module","user":{"login":"morgajel","id":1386700,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1386700?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel","html_url":"https://github.com/morgajel","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/morgajel/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-29T14:15:57Z","updated_at":"2015-05-29T14:15:57Z","closed_at":null,"body":"##### Issue Type:\r\n\r\nFeature Idea\r\n\r\n##### Ansible Version:\r\n\r\nansible 1.9.1\r\n\r\n##### Environment:\r\n\r\nMint 17 host, Centos7 target\r\n\r\n##### Summary:\r\n\r\nIt would be nice to specify a url as the source in an unarchive line:\r\n    - unarchive: src=http://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/sites/default/files/check_wmi_plus.v1.59.tar.gz  dest=/root creates=/opt/check_wmi_plus\r\n\r\nNote that the yum module currently does this (although that's yum's behavior, not ansible). It would be nice to have some consistency in possible sources.\r\n\r\nOf course the current workaround is to copy the file from the url to the remote system first, then unarchive it, but this seems less intuitive.\r\n\r\nJust throwing it out there; I can see pros and cons for both sides."}}