--- - name: nodejs get json containing latest version uri: url: https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json register: latest - name: nodejs create directory for downloaded package file: state: directory dest: ~/.local/src - name: nodejs download latest package get_url: url: 'https://nodejs.org/dist/{{latest.json[0].version}}/node-{{latest.json[0].version}}-linux-x64.tar.gz' dest: ~/.local/src/node.tar.gz - name: nodejs extract downloaded package unarchive: src: ~/.local/src/node.tar.gz dest: ~/.local/src remote_src: true - name: nodejs create symlink links file: state: link src: '~/.local/src/node-{{latest.json[0].version}}-linux-x64/bin/{{item}}' dest: '~/.local/bin/{{item}}' with_items: [corepack, node, npm, npx]