{
  "requirements": [], 
  "description": [
    "This module works like M(copy), but in reverse. It is used for fetching files from remote machines and storing them locally in a file tree, organized by hostname."
  ], 
  "author": "Michael DeHaan", 
  "docuri": "fetch", 
  "module": "fetch", 
  "filename": "library/fetch", 
  "examples": [
    {
      "code": "fetch src=/var/log/messages dest=/home/logtree", 
      "description": "Example from Ansible Playbooks"
    }
  ], 
  "version_added": "0.2", 
  "short_description": "Fetches a file from remote nodes", 
  "now_date": "2012-10-09", 
  "options": {
    "dest": {
      "default": null, 
      "required": true, 
      "description": [
        "A directory to save the file into. For example, if the I(dest) directory is C(/backup) a src file named C(/etc/profile) on host C(host.example.com), would be saved into C(/backup/host.example.com/etc/profile)"
      ]
    }, 
    "src": {
      "default": null, 
      "required": true, 
      "description": [
        "The file on the remote system to fetch. This must be a file, not a directory. Recursive fetching may be supported in a later release."
      ], 
      "aliases": []
    }
  }, 
  "ansible_version": "0.8"
}