NordVPN wrapper

It connects to recommended server in given country.

Based on tutorial: https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/linux/openvpn/ and code from: https://github.com/Joentje/nordvpn-proxy.

The most complete NordVPN API documentation: https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2019/02/18/how-to-use-public-nordvpn-api/.

Usage

nordvpn-wrapper.sh country

If country is not given, default country is "NL".

Alternative usage

If for some reason connection to automatically selected server is not desired, server number can be specified as the second argument:

nordvpn-wrapper.sh country serverNumber

E.g.

nordvpn-wrapper.sh nl 934

Configuration

Create ${HOME}/.config/nordvpn-auth.txt with two lines. First line is user name, second is password.

Dependency list

• wc
• curl
• unzip
• jq
• sudo
• openvpn

Installation

echo -e 'USERNAME@gmail.com\nPASSWORD' > "${HOME}/.config/nordvpn-auth.txt"

git clone "https://github.com/gdmn/nordvpn-wrapper.git"
cd nordvpn-wrapper
sudo ln -s "$(pwd)/nordvpn-wrapper.sh" /usr/local/bin/

sudo true && nordvpn-wrapper.sh

One-liner

curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gdmn/nordvpn-wrapper/master/nordvpn-wrapper.sh' -o /tmp/nordvpn-wrapper.sh && bash /tmp/nordvpn-wrapper.sh

Connection guard (optional)

The script runs nordvpn-wrapper.sh and guards openvpn connection. If openvpn process is not present or ping fails, connection is restarted.

curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gdmn/nordvpn-wrapper/master/nordvpn-guard.sh' -o /tmp/nordvpn-guard.sh && sudo bash /tmp/nordvpn-guard.sh