Connect to NordVPN more easily on linux (using fish shell, fzf, and fd - gif of finished script in comments)

README.md

Assuming you have openvpn, fish, fzf, and fd installed

Grab the NordVPN openvpn config files and unzip them

curl -Lo ~/NordVPN/ovpn.zip --create-dirs https://downloads.nordcdn.com/configs/archives/servers/ovpn.zip
unzip ~/NordVPN/ovpn.zip

Grab the function defined in the file below

curl -Lo ~/.config/fish/functions/nordvpn.fish --create-dirs https://gist.githubusercontent.com/oscarduignan/1e0fafb88d8d8c69162d831937cc2e50/raw/nordvpn.fish

Before you can run the function you need to add your nordvpn username and password on separate lines to ~/.nordvpn

Once that is done you can now run nordvpn and you'll see a list of the openvpn configs to choose from in fzf, when you choose one it will load that connect using that config with openvpn (animated gif in comments)

nordvpn.fish

function nordvpn -d "Connect to NordVPN"
  # https://zendesk.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/213040989-How-to-securely-watch-Netflix-with-NordVPN

  echo NordVPN, select your server to connect:
  echo "("(set_color red)US Netflix(set_color normal) 707-710, 722-733, 868-875, 884-887,940-947, 952-963, 980-987, 1074-1193, 1196-1215")"

  fd -e ovpn . ~/NordVPN | fzf --height 40% | read -l result

  [ "$result" ]; and sudo openvpn --config $result --auth-user-pass ~/.nordvpn

  commandline -f repaint
end

I haven't tested the installation steps above but they are a condensed version of what I did to get it working for myself locally