# Implementing custom modules **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 7, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/implementing-custom-modules/14957 "2014-04-07T16:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marc\_Tardif](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Marc\_Tardif](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marc_Tardif)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/implementing-custom-modules/14957/1 "2014-04-07T16:22:48Z")
Hi folks, I need a module like wait\_for that also checks for something useful returned by a URL. The reason is that a port might be open but the service might not be returning anything useful yet. So, I'd like to know how to implement a custom module that resides outside the ansible project so that I don't have to either fork the project or copy my module into the project. In other words, I want to extend ansible with a custom module. ---
**Author:** ![Marc\_Tardif](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Marc\_Tardif](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marc_Tardif)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/implementing-custom-modules/14957/2 "2014-04-07T21:39:34Z")
Nevermind folks, I just discovered the Bundling Ansible Modules With Playbooks section from the Best Practices documentation:   [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks\_best\_practices.html#bundling-ansible-modules-with-playbooks](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_best_practices.html#bundling-ansible-modules-with-playbooks) \* Marc Tardif \ [2014-04-07 12:22 -0400]: ---
**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:** [April 9, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/implementing-custom-modules/14957/3 "2014-04-09T13:55:09Z")
You might want to take a look at: [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks\_loops.html#id19](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html#id19)