Overview¶
Nord is a client for interacting with the NordVPN service.
At its core is a high-level Python API for interacting both with the web service provided by NordVPN, and for connecting to VPN servers using OpenVPN.
Nord also contains components that expose this API as a command line tool, and (soon) as a web service and frontend.
Installation¶
pip install nord
Usage¶
Run nord --help
for the full usage instructions.
Connect to a specific NordVPN server:
nord connect -u my_user -p my_password us893
Connect to any NordVPN server in a given country:
nord connect -u my_user -p my_password US
You can also supply your password from a file using the -f
flag.
The special value -
means “read from stdin”. This is particularly
useful when your password is stored in a utility such as
pass:
pass nordvpn_password | nord connect -u my_user -f - us893
Prerequesites¶
- GNU/Linux system
- Python 3.6
openvpn
sudo
nord contains many Linux-isms (e.g. using the sudo
program to obtain root
access) so it will certainly not work on Windows, it may possibly work
on OSX and *BSD, but support for these platforms is not a goal.
Most recent versions of popular GNU/Linux distributions (with the exception of Debian) have both an OpenVPN client and Python 3.6 in their official repositories. Debian users will have to take additional steps to get a Python 3.6 installation.
Ubuntu 16.10 and newer¶
Ubuntu comes with sudo
already installed, so we just need
to install Python and openVPN:
sudo apt-get install python3.6 openvpn
Fedora 26 and newer¶
Fedora comes with sudo
already installed, so we just need
to install Python and openVPN:
sudo dnf install python36 openvpn
Arch Linux¶
Run the following as root:
pacman -S sudo python openvpn
Then configure sudo
by following the Arch wiki
to give privileges to the user that nord will be running as.
Debian¶
First run the following as root to install the openVPN client and
sudo
from the Debian repositories:
apt install sudo openvpn
Then configure sudo
by following the Debian wiki
to give privileges to the user that nord will be running as.
There are a couple of options for installing Python3.6 on Debian:
- Installing from the
unstable
repositories - Installing from source (easier than you might think
Both of these methods are explained in top-rated answers to this stackexchange question.