Sometimes you want to hide your IP, but just for one specific application. Or a couple; but certainly you do not want to completely switch to another network.

If your application does support SOCKS (or even HTTP) proxy, nordvpn-proxy is what you need!

However, please be aware that this is a very hacky solution, suitable for private use but definitely not production-ready (for whatever definition of "production"). You might want to check the links in References for other solutions.

First, go to the Nord Account dashboard to get the service credentials:

Paste the credentials to the auth.txt file within the same directory as Dockerfile. Username is the first line; password is the second.

Now, build the thing (note that the aforementioned auth.txt file will be stored in plaintext within the container!):

docker build -t nordvpn-proxy .

Customize the parameters (--env arguments are optional; default is to use TCP and a recommended server) and run the container:

docker run -it --privileged --rm \
    --dns=8.8.8.8 \
    --env SERVER=nl868.nordvpn.com \
    --env PROTOCOL=udp \
    -p 1080:1080 \
    -p 3128:3128 \
    nordvpn-proxy

You can also specify just the 2 digits of the country code and a random server from that country will be selected:

docker run -it --privileged --rm --dns=8.8.8.8 --env SERVER=de -p 1080:1080 nordvpn-proxy

Test it!

curl -x socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080 http://whatismyip.akamai.com
curl -x http://127.0.0.1:3128 http://whatismyip.akamai.com

• Server recommended by NordVPN
• Tutorials on how to set up proxy with NordVPN
• How can I connect to NordVPN using Linux Terminal?
• Official NordVPN client in a docker container