OSX control VPN via script?

japher

Hi

I was hoping to create Alfred workflows to control my PIA connection.

Is there a script or binary installed as part of the PIA client that can be used to:

a) check the status of the PIA connection and

b) connect or disconnect from the PIA VPN

If there is a CLI tool that can do this then I can use this in an Alfred workflow.

Osborne_Cox

There is nothing available for the PIA client but you can use an alternative client (Tunnelblick or Viscosity) which supports scripting.

groundhogday

One approach is to track the openvpn process that PIA spawns. Here's a Workflow for starting and stopping PIA thru Alfred: https://github.com/skonagaya/PIA-Interface A downside is that the code may brake when you upgrade PIA version in the future.