# local\_action using remote file content **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 31, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/local-action-using-remote-file-content/14243 "2013-12-31T14:35:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bryan\_hunt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bryan\_hunt1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bryan_hunt1)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/local-action-using-remote-file-content/14243/1 "2013-12-31T14:35:05Z")
Hi there, It’s my intention to write a bitbucket module for Ansible. The use case is : Create a local VM using vagrant, provisioned by Ansible. Using Ansible: 1 Generate a SSH key-pair on that machine. 2 Take the freshly generated Public Key and load it into my Bitbucket account, using the bitbucket-api python module. 3 Check out a bunch of projects that I want R/W access to from within the VM. Then I vagrant ssh into that box, and profit! I’ve got most of the pieces worked out, but have a couple of questions regarding approach. I’d like to create a proper Ansible module to handle Bitbucket but for now I’d like to just create a quick script. I believe local\_action is the syntax to use for running commands on my local machine. Now, I could fetch the ~/.ssh/id\_pub.rsa file from the remote VM, and store it on my hard drive somewhere like /tmp/vm.id\_pub.rsa, but ideally I’d like to either pipe it into the script I’m going to write or supply it as a quoted command line argument. Can this be done (taking the entire contents of a remote file and storing it into a variable) ? Bryan ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/local-action-using-remote-file-content/14243/2 "2013-12-31T15:02:56Z")
Seeing you said “module”, why is the hg module not sufficient for talking to bitbucket? ---
**Author:** ![bryan\_hunt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bryan\_hunt1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bryan_hunt1)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/local-action-using-remote-file-content/14243/3 "2013-12-31T15:09:13Z")
Not for performing VCS tasks but for talking directly to the bitbucket rest API. [http://restbrowser.bitbucket.org](http://restbrowser.bitbucket.org) In order to add the ssh keys from the freshly created VM instance. POST [https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/users/{accountname}/ssh-keys/](https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/users/%7Baccountname%7D/ssh-keys/) ---
**Author:** ![Capi\_Etheriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Capi\_Etheriel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Capi_Etheriel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/local-action-using-remote-file-content/14243/4 "2015-01-12T16:48:47Z")
did you write the module? btw, for cloning it should be enough to support deploy keys.