# setting gather\_facts for a role ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 2, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-gather-facts-for-a-role/34270 "2020-12-02T13:35:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Caillibaud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Daniel\_Caillibaud](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_Caillibaud)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-gather-facts-for-a-role/34270/1 "2020-12-02T13:35:01Z")
Hi, I saw that I can specify   gather\_facts: no in a playbook or a tasks list, but is it possible to precise it for a role ? I tried on top of a roles/xxx/tasks.yml (because it's a tasks list) but it throw a syntax error while loading yml Thanks ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-gather-facts-for-a-role/34270/2 "2020-12-02T16:44:58Z")
Gathering facts takes place at the beginning of a play, so why would you want to disable that in a role? Regards         Racke ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Caillibaud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Daniel\_Caillibaud](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_Caillibaud)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-gather-facts-for-a-role/34270/3 "2020-12-03T07:43:15Z")
Because it's the role himself who knows if it needs facts or not (more precisely the tasklist of the role should implies gather\_facts or not). - In a play, I chain roles but I don't know exactly if one role needs fact   or not - If I add a --limit to the play run, perhaps that all roles which needs   facts are skipped (the target isn't in any group needing fact) so   gather\_facts will be useless in that case.