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Instructions to obtain WireGuard details of your NordVPN account. These can be used to setup a WireGuard tunnel on your router to NordVPN.
Source: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/configure-wireguard-client-to-connect-to-nordvpn-servers/10422/27
Prerequisites

If you have any linux machine, use that or install a vm if you don't have one.
Get their official linux app installed. Make sure you have wireguard installed too. And set the used technology to Nordlynx by running nordvpn set technology nordlynx
Fetching details

Connect to nordvpn with command: nordvpn connect (don't forget to login with nordvpn login --legacy).
Fetch (your) IP address

After successful connection run
ifconfig nordlynx
Fetch your private key

Run
sudo wg show nordlynx private-key
Output of this command should be something like this:
CKMAE9LARlt2eZHgGnNaSUYiKllKJN7f3hed/bWm5E8=
The key above is just a random key for demo purposes.
Fetch your public key

Run
sudo wg show nordlynx public-key
Output of this command should be something like this:
TO158iXbNXt2eZHgGnNaSUYiKZHgGN7f3hed/bWm5E8=
The key above is just a random key for demo purposes.
Fetch server details

Make sure you have curl and jq installed on your host/router. These are needed to be able to fetch the config of NordVPN Server. If not installed, go ahead and install
opkg install curl jq
After installation enter the command below to fetch the recommended server config:
curl -s "https://api.nordvpn.com/v1/servers/recommendations?&filters\[servers_technologies\]\[identifier\]=wireguard_udp&limit=1"|jq -r '.[]|.hostname, .station, (.locations|.[]|.country|.city.name), (.locations|.[]|.country|.name), (.technologies|.[].metadata|.[].value), .load'
Output:
uk1818.nordvpn.com #your endpoint host
178.239.166.185 #its ip address
London #city
United Kingdom #country
K53l2wOIHU3262sX5N/5kAvCvt4r55lNui30EbvaDlE= #Server public key
10 #Server load at the time.
Or just visit the following url https://api.nordvpn.com/v1/servers/recommendations?&filters\[servers_technologies\]\[identifier\]=wireguard_udp&limit=1 from your browser and look for the details manually.