Uses Selenium to get (or refresh) your Windscribe ephemeral port, absent a proper API to do it. It does not require a gui, or even x to be installed.

get-windscribe-port.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

# Step 1: install firefox: $ sudo apt install firefox
# Step 2: install selenium: $ pip3 install selenium
# Step 3: install geckodriver: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options as FirefoxOptions
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
import logging
import argparse
from getpass import getpass

options = FirefoxOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)

url_login = "https://windscribe.com/login"
url_account = "https://windscribe.com/myaccount"
url_logout = "https://windscribe.com/myaccount/logout"

def login(username, password):
    # Logs in and returns webdriver used in get_port

    driver.get(url_login)
    logging.debug('Navigated to {}'.format(url_login))
    
    # Wait for CSRF
    WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//input[@id="csrf_time"][not(@value="")]')))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//input[@id="csrf_token"][not(@value="")]')))
    driver.find_element(By.ID, "username").send_keys(username)
    driver.find_element(By.ID, "pass").send_keys(password)
    driver.find_element(By.ID, "login_button").click()
    logging.debug('Entered credentials and clicked login button')

    # Check that login succeeded:
    # If we are still at the login url, check for error message
    if driver.current_url == url_login:
        _error = "Login failure: "
        try:
            _error += driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='content_message error'][not(@hidden)]").text
        except NoSuchElementException:
            _error += "No Error, but login failed. Source: \n\n"
            _error += driver.page_source
        raise Exception(_error)

    WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.url_matches(url_account))
    logging.info('Successfully logged in as user {}'.format(username))

    return driver
    
    
def get_port(driver, refresh=False):
    driver.get(url_account)
    logging.debug('Navigated to {}'.format(url_account))

    # Navigate to port forwarding tab
    _port_forwarding_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//a[@id="menu-ports"][@onclick][string-length(@onclick) > 0]')))
    _port_forwarding_button.click()
    logging.debug('Clicked Port Forwarding tab')


    # Navigate to ephemeral port forwarding tab
    _ephemeral_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//li[@id="pf-eph-btn"][@onclick][string-length(@onclick) > 0]')))
    time.sleep(1) # This is a dirty hack, but there is some js going on in the background I need to wait for
    _ephemeral_button.click()
    logging.debug('Clicked Ephemeral tab')

    # If refresh, delete existing port
    if refresh:
        try:
            WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//button[normalize-space()="Delete Port"]'))).click()
            WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//button[normalize-space()="Request Matching Port"]')))
            logging.info("Deleted existing port")
        except NoSuchElementException:
            # No port to delete
            pass

    # Generate matching port if possible
    try:
        # Wait until request matching port button appears to continue:
        driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[normalize-space()="Request Matching Port"]').click()
        logging.debug('Requesting a matching port')
    except NoSuchElementException:
        # We already have a port
        pass

    # Get the port and return
    WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//button[normalize-space()="Delete Port"]')))
    _port = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//div[@id="epf-port-info"]/span[string-length(text()) > 0]'))).text
    _port = int(_port)
    assert 1024 < _port < 65535
    logging.info('Received matching port of {}'.format(_port))
    _time = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//span[@id="epf-countdown"][string-length(text()) > 0]'))).text
    logging.info('Port will expire in {}'.format(_time))

    return _port, _time


def cleanup(driver):
    driver.get(url_logout)
    driver.quit()


def main(username, password, refresh):
    logging.basicConfig(format='%(levelname)s:%(message)s', level=logging.INFO)
    
    try:
        driver = login(username, password)
        port, time = get_port(driver, refresh)
        print(port)
    except Exception as e:
        logging.error(e)
    finally: 
        if driver:
            cleanup(driver)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Get or refresh matching ephemeral port from Windscribe")
    parser.add_argument('-u', '--user', required=True, type=str)
    parser.add_argument('-p', '--password', required=False, type=str)
    parser.add_argument('-r', '--refresh', required=False, action="store_true", help="Force a refresh of the port if possible")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    
    if not args.password:
        args.password = getpass()
        
    main(args.user, args.password, args.refresh)