Example demonstrating string extraction from HTML content in Ansible with regex_search filter plugin

AnsibleRegexSearchHTML.yml

---

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - uri:
      url: https://rstumph2.service-now.com/stats.do
      return_content: yes
    register: response

  - debug: msg="{{ response.content }}"

  - set_fact: "mid_build_stamp={{ response.content | regex_search('MID buildstamp: ([^<]{1,})') }}"

  - debug: "msg={{ mid_build_stamp.split(': ')[1]}}"

Just in case someones stumbles across this from google, like I did. There is no need to use intermediate set_fact.

  - debug: msg="{{ response.content }}"
 
  - debug: "msg={{ (response.content | regex_search('MID buildstamp: ([^<]{1,})')).split(': ')[1] }}"