# adding vault to lookups

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vault-to-lookups/15658>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [July 13, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vault-to-lookups/15658 "2014-07-13T00:36:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vault-to-lookups/15658/1 "2014-07-13T00:36:19Z")

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So I needed file lookup with vault and here is a 1st draft:

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8110](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8110)

it should be easy to add vault support to other lookups using this.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vault-to-lookups/15658/2 "2014-07-13T20:05:53Z")

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Nicely done! This has been a somewhat common request, so happy to see this.