Export Ansible AWX/Tower Inventory to a standard Inventory

export-awx-inventory.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import requests
import argparse
import sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Convert Ansible AWX/Tower Inventory to standard inventory')

parser.add_argument('--url', required=True, help='base url of AWX/Tower')
parser.add_argument('-u', '--username', help='username')
parser.add_argument('-p', '--password', help='password')
parser.add_argument('inventory', nargs=1, help='inventory name')

args = parser.parse_args()

r = requests.get('{}/api/v2/inventories/'.format(args.url), auth=(args.username, args.password))
iid = -1
for inventory in r.json()['results']:
    if inventory['name'] == args.inventory[0]:
        iid = inventory['id']
        break

if iid == -1:
    print("no such inventory")
    sys.exit(1)

r = requests.get('{}/api/v2/inventories/{}/script/?hostvars=1&towervars=1&all=1'.format(args.url, iid), auth=(args.username, args.password))


hosts = r.json()
for key in sorted(hosts):
    if key == 'all':
        continue
    if key == '_meta':
        continue
    if 'hosts' in hosts[key]:
        print('[{}]'.format(key))
        for host in hosts[key]['hosts']:
            print host
        print ''
    if 'children' in hosts[key]:
        print('[{}:children]'.format(key))
        for child in hosts[key]['children']:
            print child
        print ''
    if 'vars' in hosts[key]:
        print('[{}:vars]'.format(key))
        for var in hosts[key]['vars']:
            print '{}={}'.format(var, hosts[key]['vars'][var])
        print ''
    print ''

Thanks for the code. Very helpful.
host variables are here hosts["_meta"]["hostvars"]

Thank you this was very helpful.

I have updated your script to use python3 and added the following functionality:

1. query more than one inventory page for inventory id
2. extract host variables and add to ini file
3. list that holds host variable terms that should be excluded for ini file generation

source: https://gist.github.com/afreller-1wa/69452a5c4677ff54c19084bd12e635b4