ansible tasks for getting the url and checksum of a debian cloud image

ansible-get-debian-coudimage.yml

---
- name: example playbook for downloading the latest debian cloud vm image
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    debian_cloudimage_repo_subdir: bullseye/daily
    debian_cloudimage_type: genericcloud-amd64
    debian_cloudimage_format: qcow2
    debian_cloudimage_repo_url: "https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/{{ debian_cloudimage_repo_subdir }}/"
    debian_cloudimage_release: latest
  tasks:
    - name: get debian cloud image versions
      ansible.builtin.uri:
        url: "{{ debian_cloudimage_repo_url }}"
        return_content: true
      register: debian_cloudimage_versions_page
      when: debian_cloudimage_release == "latest"

    - name: parse latest debian cloud image version
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        debian_cloudimage_release: >-
          {{ debian_cloudimage_versions_page.content.split('</tr>') |
          map('regex_search', '<a href="(\d{8}-\d+)/">', '\1') |
          select() | map('first') | list | last }}
      when: debian_cloudimage_release == "latest"

    - name: get debian cloud image urls
      ansible.builtin.uri:
        url: "{{ debian_cloudimage_repo_url }}{{ debian_cloudimage_release }}/"
        return_content: true
      register: debian_cloudimage_images_page

    - name: parse debian cloud image filename
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        debian_cloudimage_filename: >-
          {{ debian_cloudimage_images_page.content.split('\n') |
          map('regex_search', '<a href="([^\"]*-%s-(daily-)?%s.%s)">' %
            (debian_cloudimage_type, debian_cloudimage_release, debian_cloudimage_format), '\1')
          | select() | first | first }}

    - name: construct debian cloud image url
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        debian_cloudimage_url: >-
          {{ debian_cloudimage_repo_url }}{{ debian_cloudimage_release }}/{{ debian_cloudimage_filename }}

    - name: get debian cloud image checksums
      ansible.builtin.uri:
        url: "{{ debian_cloudimage_repo_url }}{{ debian_cloudimage_release }}/SHA512SUMS"
        return_content: true
      register: debian_cloudimage_checksums
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: parse debian cloud image checksum
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        debian_cloudimage_checksum: >-
          {{ debian_cloudimage_checksums.content.split('\n') | map('regex_search', '(\w+)  %s' % debian_cloudimage_filename, '\1') | select() | first }}

    - name: show url and checksum
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg:
          debian_cloudimage_url: "{{ debian_cloudimage_url }}"
          debian_cloudimage_checksum: "{{ debian_cloudimage_checksum }}"