# Ansible Runner API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-runner-api/  
**Provider:** Ansible Playbooks — https://apis.io/providers/ansible-playbooks/  
**Base URL:** https://pypi.org/project/ansible-runner/  
**Documentation:** https://ansible-runner.readthedocs.io/

Ansible Runner API is one of 18 APIs that [Ansible Playbooks](https://apis.io/providers/ansible-playbooks/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Ansible, Automation, Library, Playbooks, and Python. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and a GitHub repository.

Ansible Runner is a Python library and CLI tool that provides a stable and consistent interface for executing Ansible playbooks programmatically from within other applications and tools. Used by AWX, Automation Platform, and CI/CD pipelines to launch Ansible with structured input and output handling.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://ansible-runner.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- **APIReference** — https://ansible-runner.readthedocs.io/en/stable/python_interface.html
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner
- **SDKs** — https://pypi.org/project/ansible-runner/

## Other Ansible Playbooks APIs (12)

- [Ansible Automation Platform API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-automation-platform-api/)
- [AWX API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/awx-api/)
- [Ansible Galaxy API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-galaxy-api/)
- [Ansible Automation Hub API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-automation-hub-api/)
- [Ansible Semaphore API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-semaphore-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Auth API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-auth-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Credentials API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-credentials-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Hosts API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-hosts-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Inventories API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-inventories-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Job Templates API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-job-templates-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Jobs API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-jobs-api/)
- [Ansible Playbooks Organizations API](https://apis.io/apis/ansible-playbooks/ansible-playbooks-organizations-api/)

## Tags

Ansible, Automation, Library, Playbooks, Python

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