diff --git a/archivebox/playbooks/runner.py b/archivebox/playbooks/runner.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b887bd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivebox/playbooks/runner.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+from ansible_runner import Runner, RunnerConfig
+from benedict import benedict
+from rich.pretty import pprint
+
+
+GLOBAL_CACHE = {}
+
+IGNORED_VARS = ('OUTPUT', 'STDOUT', 'STDERR', 'RC', 'CMD')
+# IGNORED_VARS = ()
+
+def run_playbook(name, extravars=None, getvars=IGNORED_VARS):
+    _discarded = [GLOBAL_CACHE.pop(key) for key in IGNORED_VARS if key in GLOBAL_CACHE]
+    rc = RunnerConfig(
+        private_data_dir=".",
+        playbook=f"/Volumes/NVME/Users/squash/Code/archiveboxes/archivebox7/archivebox/playbooks/{name}",
+        rotate_artifacts=50000,
+        host_pattern="localhost",
+        extravars={
+            **(extravars or {}),
+            "DATA_DIR": "/Volumes/NVME/Users/squash/Code/archiveboxes/archivebox7/data4",
+        },
+        # quiet=True,
+    )
+    rc.prepare()
+    r = Runner(config=rc)
+    r.set_fact_cache('localhost', GLOBAL_CACHE)
+    r.run()
+    last_run_facts = r.get_fact_cache('localhost')
+    GLOBAL_CACHE.update(filtered_facts(last_run_facts))
+    return benedict({
+        key: val
+        for key, val in last_run_facts.items()
+        if not (key.startswith('ansible_') or key in ('gather_subset', 'module_setup'))
+    })
+
+def filtered_facts(facts):
+    return benedict({
+        key: val
+        for key, val in facts.items()
+        if not (key.startswith('ansible_') or key in ('gather_subset', 'module_setup', *IGNORED_VARS))
+    })
+
+def print_globals():
+    pprint(filtered_facts(GLOBAL_CACHE), expand_all=True)
+
+# for each_host_event in r.events:
+#     print(each_host_event['event'])
+
+# print("Final status:")
+# print(r.stats)
+
+ALL_VARS = run_playbook('install_all.yml')
+# pprint(ALL_VARS)
+print_globals()
+
+
+# YTDLP_BIN = run_playbook('bin_path.yml', getvars=('OUTPUT', 'STDOUT', 'STDERR', 'RC', 'CMD', 'ytdlp_bin_abs', 'hostvars'))
+# pprint(YTDLP_BIN.YTDLP_BIN_ABS)
+# print_globals()
+
+
+# YTDLP_VERSION = run_playbook('version.yml') #, {'YTDLP_BIN': YTDLP_BIN.OUTPUT})
+# pprint(YTDLP_VERSION.YTDLP_VERSION)
+# print_globals()
+
+
+# YTDLP_OUTPUT = run_playbook('extract.yml', {'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w&t=27s'})
+# pprint(YTDLP_OUTPUT)
+
+# print()
+# print()
+# print_globals()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 647411af..b0eed6e0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "base32-crockford==0.3.0",
     ############# Extractor Dependencies #############
     "yt-dlp>=2024.8.6",               # for: media
+    "python-benedict[io,parse]>=0.33.2",
 ]
 
 homepage = "https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox"