Nord: an unofficial NordVPN client ================================== .. badges-start .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL%20v3-blue.svg :target: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL%20v3-blue.svg :alt: GPLv3 License .. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/nord.svg :target: https://badge.fury.io/py/nord :alt: PyPi package .. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/nord/badge/?version=stable :target: http://nord.readthedocs.io/en/stable/?badge=stable :alt: Documentation Status .. badges-end .. doc-start **DEPRECATION NOTICE: This repository will no longer be actively worked on now that NordVPN has an official Linux client: https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/Linux/** Overview -------- .. 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. .. _NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com .. overview-end Licence ------- Nord is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3. See the LICENSE_ file for details. The file ``web/static/world.geo.json`` is Copyright (c) 2017 Richard Zimmerman and is included here under the conditions of the `MIT License`_ .. _LICENSE: LICENSE .. _MIT License: web/static/LICENSE 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 Serve a web app that allows you to select the country to which you wish to connect:: nord web -u my_user -p my_password 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 .. _pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/ 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. .. _additional steps: Debian_ 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. .. _Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sudo 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`_. .. _Debian wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/sudo .. _stackexchange question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332641/how-to-install-python-3-6 Developing ---------- You will need Python 3.6 and Yarn_ (for the web components). :: git clone https://github.com/jbweston/nord cd nord virtualenv -p python3.6 source venv/bin/activate pip install -e .[dev] yarn install Periodically check your code with the linter:: pylint nord Web components ************** When developing the web frontend you can execute the following command to run an auto-reloading web server:: yarn dev .. _Yarn: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install Building the API documentation ****************************** :: make -C docs html xdg-open docs/build/html/index.html