Is it possible to apply a list of items to multiple tasks in an Ansible playbook? To give an example:

- name: download and execute
  hosts: server1
  tasks:
  - get_url: url="some-url/{{item}}" dest="/tmp/{{item}}"
    with_items:
    - "file1.sh"
    - "file2.sh"
  - shell: /tmp/{{item}} >> somelog.txt
    with_items:
    - "file1.sh"
    - "file2.sh"
Is there some syntax to avoid the repetition of the item-list?
As of today you can use with_items with include, so you'd need to split your playbook into two files:
- name: download and execute
  hosts: server1
  tasks:
  - include: subtasks.yml file={{item}}
    with_items:
    - "file1.sh"
    - "file2.sh"
and subtasks.yml:
- get_url: url="some-url/{{file}}" dest="/tmp/{{file}}"
- shell: /tmp/{{file}} >> somelog.txt
There is a request to make with_items applicable to block, but it is still not implemented.
                Re. making with_items applicable to block: This feature is not implemented in Ansible as explained in the feature request above. That explanation dates up to 2018-09-27, so Ansible up to v2.5.5 doesn't have this with_items+block feature; it doesn't look like it'll be added any time soon if ever.
                    – Andrew Richards
                Apr 5 '19 at 14:51
        
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