Configure a Raspberry Pi for web scraping
Commands used to install the VPN:
Setting up the VPN (on the Pi Zero)
Important : Check disk free using “df -h“
pi@pi_zero:~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 15G 4.7G 9.3G 34% /
devtmpfs 213M 0 213M 0% /dev
tmpfs 217M 0 217M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 217M 6.2M 211M 3% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 217M 0 217M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 80M 80M 0 100% /snap/core/9069
/dev/mmcblk0p1 43M 23M 20M 53% /boot
tmpfs 44M 8.0K 44M 1% /run/user/1000
Next, get the VPN specific files (the ones in bold are for “Private VPN” yours may be different).
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get http://privatevpn.com/client/ca.crt
sudo wget https://privatevpn.com/client/install.sh
sudo ./install.sh
sudo chmod a+x install.sh
sudo apt-get install openvpn curl
pi@pi_zero:~ $ sudo ./install.sh
PrivateVPN Linux OpenVPN Installer v0.3
- Checking for OpenVPN – OK
- Enter login details for PrivateVPN
- [username]: *****
- [password]: ********
- Installing conf to default location (/etc/openvpn), write c to edit installpath.
- Continue [yes/no/c] yes
Fetching the server list from https://privatevpn.com/serverlist/ - Installation Complete, run “sudo privatvpn” to connect to PrivateVPN service.
sudo micro /etc/privatevpn.conf # add server details
sudo nohup privatvpn # nohup means it will keep running if you quit PuTTy or Terminal from where you launch it.
To check it’s connecting to the VPN server use :
curl ifconfig.me and check if the ip address is the same as the server you saw in the Private VPN published list.
