Automatically connect and disconnect vpn on python

Question:

The idea came up to me to write my own personal downloader for large files from mega.nz.

The question of how to bypass their restrictions, the answer was found quickly, do not log into accounts and just change ip reconnecting to vpn from NordVPN, there was another question, how to connect and disconnect from vpn automatically after either time, or wait for an error response from mega.

Searched on google with different queries, nothing similar (even the usual connection to the VPN) could not be found. Thought about some implementation from OpenVPN, but found only readme on github that it does not exist, can there be ready-made solutions for my problem? Please give at least a tip on library for python 3.x.x or some personal snippets of your own developments on similar topics (connect and disconnect VPN)

Asked By: johhta

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Answers:

You can connect to NordVPN from Python using the NordVPN-switcher
Try this: https://github.com/kboghe/NordVPN-switcher

Answered By: ciprianp

To automatically connect and disconnect a VPN on Python, you can use the subprocess module to call the CLI of the VPN client.

Here is an example of how you can do this:

import subprocess

def connect_vpn():
    subprocess.run(["vpn_client", "connect"])

def disconnect_vpn():
    subprocess.run(["vpn_client", "disconnect"])

Note that the subprocess.run() function is a blocking function, which means that the Python script will wait for the VPN client to finish executing before continuing. This may not be desirable in some cases, so you may want to use the subprocess.Popen() function instead, which allows you to run the VPN client in the background and continue executing the script.

You can also use the requests module to send HTTP requests to a VPN server to establish a connection. However, this approach requires that the VPN server supports this type of connection and that you have the necessary credentials and configuration information.

Answered By: Techdpi
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