Install

Dependencies

This package depends on openvpn and net-tools

sudo apt install openvpn net-tools

NPM install:

npm install vpn-fetch

About

I created this package out of necessity, and as I haven’t found anything similar in my research I decided to publish it to help anyone out there who are in the same rabbit role that I went trying to achieve the functionality. It is heavily based on this blog post found in this question. To make the network requests it uses the got package, as it supports the localAddress option.

When executed, it will ask for the root password, it is asked because the openvpn client needs to be run as sudo.

Example

The VPNFetch constructor takes the VPN config file, and a txt file with the VPN server username and password sepparated by a newline.

  const configFiles = await readdir('/etc/openvpn/ovpn_tcp')
  const randomConfig = configFiles[Math.floor(Math.random() * configFiles.length)]

  const vpnFetch = new VPNFetch(
    '/etc/openvpn/ovpn_tcp/' + randomConfig,
    './login_information'
  )
  await vpnFetch.connect()
  const response = await vpnFetch.get('https://ifconfig.me/ip')
  console.log('IP:', response.body)