Simple script to get Ansible facts on localhost.

simple_facts.py

import json

from ansible.runner import Runner
from ansible import inventory


hosts = ['localhost']
inventory_manager = inventory.Inventory(hosts)

runner = Runner(
    module_name='time',
    #module_name='setup', # you can run this to get default system output
    module_path='./temp',
    transport='local',
    pattern='localhost',
    inventory=inventory_manager
)

print json.dumps(runner.run(), indent=True)

time

#!/usr/bin/python
import datetime
from ansible.module_utils.basic import *

module = AnsibleModule(
    argument_spec = dict(
        state     = dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent']),
    )
)

date = str(datetime.datetime.now())
module.exit_json(ansible_facts=dict(time=date))