Use ansible to download latest github release assets

task.yml

- name: Get assets
  get_url:
    url: "https://api.github.com/repos/{{ username }}/{{ repo_name }}/releases/latest?access_token={{ github_token }}"
    force: yes
    headers:
      Accept: "application/vnd.github.v3+json"
    dest: "/tmp/{{ assets_response }}"

- name: Get download url
  shell: |
    cat "/tmp/{{ assets_response }}" | jq '.assets | .[] | select(.browser_download_url | contains("_Linux_amd64.tar.gz")) | .url' | sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//'
  register: "download_url"

- debug:
    msg: "{{ download_url.stdout }}"

- name: Download latest release
  get_url:
    url: "{{ download_url.stdout }}?access_token={{ github_token }}"
    dest: /tmp/latest_asset.tar.xz
    tmp_dest: /tmp/
    force: yes
    headers:
      Accept: "application/octet-stream"