Discord notifications next?

[Bayharbourbutcher1]

Maybe I am pushing it lol.
If possible, tool can send a webhook when a port is updated along with the server and IP pia is connected to at the time. Would be great for monitoring.

[Aldaviva]

Hello,

While PortForwardingService isn't a monitoring agent and doesn't know what Discord or webhooks are, you could accomplish this type of monitoring using piactl. If you haven't seen it already, it's an official command-line tool preinstalled with the PIA desktop clients that lets you programmatically interact with the PIA client, and it's what PortForwardingService uses under the hood to determine when the forwarded port changes.

For example, to receive notifications when the forwarded port changes, you can run

"C:\Program Files\Private Internet Access\piactl.exe" monitor portforward

When this changes and prints the new port number, you can also fetch the current VPN client IP address using

"C:\Program Files\Private Internet Access\piactl.exe" get vpnip

The current server can be retrieved using

"C:\Program Files\Private Internet Access\piactl.exe" get region

For more information, refer to the piactl documentation or piactl --help.

[Bayharbourbutcher1]

Thank you, appreciate it. Ill try and have a go this weekend see if i can make something out of it. Love your tool regardless.

[Aldaviva]

After enough requests for this sort of extensibility across projects, I realized a plugin system would help and got that working.