# default galaxy template variables

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/default-galaxy-template-variables/14620>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [February 21, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/default-galaxy-template-variables/14620 "2014-02-21T14:07:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ramon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@ramon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ramon)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/default-galaxy-template-variables/14620/1 "2014-02-21T14:07:14Z")

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When using ansible-galaxy there is template in the source with (for example) a variable {{ author }}.

But I can’t see a possibility to add these variables to the ansible-galaxy init call.

Is that already possible?

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/default-galaxy-template-variables/14620/2 "2014-02-25T15:35:37Z")

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Not currently, but it is a good idea for init to accept those are arguments. I’ll open an internal ticket for us to add that, though the ansible-galaxy command is in the main ansible repository on github if anyone else would want to tackle it.