DOCUMENTATION: name: url author: Ansible Core version_added: "2.14" short_description: is the string a valid URL description: - Validates a string to conform to the URL standard. options: _input: description: Possible URL. type: string required: True schemes: description: Subset of URI schemas to validate against, otherwise B(any) scheme is considered valid. type: list elements: string EXAMPLES: | # simple URL {{ 'http://example.com' is url }} # looking only for file transfers URIs {{ 'mailto://nowone@example.com' is not uri(schemes=['ftp', 'ftps', 'sftp', 'file']) }} # but it is according to standard {{ 'mailto://nowone@example.com' is not uri }} # more complex URL {{ 'ftp://admin:secret@example.com/path/to/myfile.yml' is url }} RETURN: _value: description: Returns C(false) if the string is not a URL, C(true) otherwise. type: boolean