Ansible JSON Query sabznbd Linux tarball only, not the whole source code - ansible

Question

I am trying to download the latest version of sabnzbd from Github API via Ansible. I know how to get the whole tarball like so;
---
- name: Install sabnzbd
hosts: all
become: true
tasks:
- name: Get URL of latest sabnzbd
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: https://api.github.com/repos/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/releases/latest
body_format: json
return_content: true
remote_src: yes
register: json_reponse
- name: Download sabnzbd tarball
ansible.builtin.get_url:
url: "{{ json_reponse.json.tarball_url }}"
dest: /tmp
register: sabnzbd_tarball
However, I would rather just get the *src.tar.gz Linux tarball to keep the directory as clean as possible.
I have tried;
---
- name: Install sabnzbd
hosts: all
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: Get latest version
uri:
url: "https://api.github.com/repos/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/releases/latest"
return_content: yes
register: github_response
- set_fact:
binary_asset_url: "{{ github_response.json|json_query(query) }}"
vars:
query: "[? browser_download_url=='[*]]-src.tar.gz'"
- debug:
var: binary_asset_url
Just to see if I can get the URL, but I can't. I know I can use a shell one liner, but it's not as clean. I also would like to understand how to query json better by seeing this in action.

Answer 1

If you aren't stuck on using query you could just select the attribute using a search like this.
$ cat stack.yml
---
- name: Install sabnzbd
hosts:
localhost
tasks:
- name: Get URL of latest sabnzbd
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: https://api.github.com/repos/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/releases/latest
body_format: json
return_content: true
remote_src: yes
delegate_to: localhost
register: json_response
- name: Debug json_response
debug:
msg: "{{ (json_response.json.assets | selectattr('browser_download_url', 'search', 'src.tar.gz') | list | first).browser_download_url }}"
Yielding:
$ ansible-playbook stack.yml
PLAY [Install sabnzbd] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Get URL of latest sabnzbd] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Debug json_response] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/releases/download/3.7.0/SABnzbd-3.7.0-src.tar.gz"
}