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<h1>API<a class="headerlink" href="#api" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>The Python API is very powerful, and is how the ansible CLI and ansible-playbook
are implemented.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty simple:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ansible.runner</span>
<span class="n">runner</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ansible</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">runner</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Runner</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">module_name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;ping&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">module_args</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">pattern</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;web*&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">forks</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">datastructure</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">runner</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">run</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<p>The run method returns results per host, grouped by whether they
could be contacted or not. Return types are module specific, as
expressed in the &#8216;ansible-modules&#8217; documentation.:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>{
"dark" : {
"web1.example.com" : "failure message"
}
"contacted" : {
"web2.example.com" : 1
}
}</pre>
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<p>A module can return any type of JSON data it wants, so Ansible can
be used as a framework to rapidly build powerful applications and scripts.</p>
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