If you are not familiar with modules, check out Ansible - Getting Started with Modules.

There are a number of similar (but unique) ways to copy files and directories using Ansible.

• copy can be used to copy files/directories from the Ansible system to the target systems or to copy files/directories on the target systems to some other directory on the target system (this article)
• ​get_url can be used to copy a file from a URL to the target systems (this article)
• synchronize can be used for both local and remote copies and is based off of rsync
• Or Role Files or Role Templates can be used

The get_url module can be used to download files from a remote system, which is similar to the wget command on Linux. The uri module can be used to determine if files on a remote web server exist. The debug module can then be used to print the output.

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: download foo.txt
    ansible.builtin.get_url:
      url: http://www.example.com/foo.txt
      dest: /tmp/foo.txt
    register: out

  - ansible.builtin.debug: 
      var: out
...

If the source file does not exist, the following will be returned.

TASK [download foo.txt]
ok: [server1.example.com]: FAILED! => {
  "changed": false,
  "dest": "/tmp/foo.txt",
  "elapsed": 0,
  "msg": "Request failed",
  "response": "HTTP Error 404: Not Found",
  "status_code": 404,
  "url": "http://www.example.com/foo.txt" }

If the source file exists, something like this should be returned.

TASK [output the content of the 'out' variable] 
ok: [server1.example.com] => {
    "msg": {
        "changed": true, 
        "checksum_dest": null, 
        "checksum_src": "977780a4470e1149a968c04a7c463f04c7c4a9dc", 
        "dest": "/tmp/foo.txt", 
        "elapsed": 0, 
        "failed": false, 
        "gid": 0, 
        "group": "root", 
        "md5sum": "ab14907c4e32ab8797f3afa54fb5cab4", 
        "mode": "0755", 
        "msg": "OK (unknown bytes)", 
        "owner": "root", 
        "secontext": "system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0", 
        "size": 41639736, 
        "src": "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1592560655.86-151504298398038/tmplN_yXZ", 
        "state": "file", 
        "status_code": 200, 
        "uid": 0, 
        "url": "https://example.com/foo.txt"
    }
}

You probably just want the status, such as 200.

- ansible.builtin.debug: 
    var: out.status

By default, "force" will be set to false, meaning the file will not be downloads if the file on the target system matches the file being downloaded. force:true can be used to always download the file.

AVOID TROUBLE

If the destination file already exists, the destination file will be overwritten, even if you use the force: no parameter, due to the bug described here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64016

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: download foo.txt
    ansible.builtin.get_url:
      url: http://www.example.com/foo.txt
      dest: /tmp/foo.txt
      force: true
    register: out
...

If the remote system requires basic authentication, the force_basic_auth, url_username and url_password parameters can be included.

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: download foo.txt
    ansible.builtin.get_url:
      url: http://example.com/foo.txt
      dest: /tmp/foo.txt
      force_basic_auth: yes
      url_username: john.doe
      url_password: itsasecret
      validate_certs: no
...