I can click pia icon in notification tray and a dialog will display external ip, location, and other options. Displaying ip is not a problem, but I have no idea how to capture the location so I can display it in Conky. Image below shows dialog. Its the location, in this case, Seattle, Im after. Anyone have ideas?

http://i63.tinypic.com/35d56bb.png

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from the title, i would say:
this consists of 2 steps:

1. get the desired information with a short shell script or oneliner
2. add that information to conky

i can help with the 2nd step.

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The included screenshot shows the dialog. What I want to place in conky, in this case is the location, US Seattle, or the whole string if that would be easier. Though I hope for it to be dynamic, and show what ever location that its connected to. My thoughts are that if it's in a menu then the info's in a table, or array somewhere. It;s just a matter of knowing how to get to it. Anyway, hear's the screenshot:

http://i68.tinypic.com/fks6jm.jpg

Im Linux newby. The extent of my script/programming skills start and end with TI Basic calculator.
I turned on logging, and I see that the string is there. Conky starts about 10 seconds after boot, so PIA is already connected, and entry would be in log. Here is last few lines of log file:

"notifications":{},"openvpn_status":{"single":"started"},"need_upgrade":{"value":false,"latest_versi on":81},"forwarded_port":{"single":null},"external_ip":{"single":"173.244.44.45"},"region":{"single" :"us_seattle"},"debug_log_result":{}}
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.456Z] <debug> |main| Updating model with regions
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.456Z] <info> |main| Regions are "US California", "US East", "US Chicago", "US Texas", "US Florida", "US Seattle", "US West", "US Silicon Valley", "US New York City", "US Washington DC", "US Atlanta", "US Las Vegas", "US Houston", "US Denver", "UK London", "UK Southampton", "UK Manchester", "CA Toronto", "CA Montreal", "CA Vancouver", "AU Sydney", "AU Melbourne", "DE Berlin", "DE Frankfurt", "New Zealand", "Netherlands", "Sweden", "Norway", "Denmark", "Finland", "Switzerland", "France", "Belgium", "Austria", "Czech Republic", "Luxembourg", "Ireland", "Italy", "Spain", "Romania", "Hungary", "Poland", "Turkey", "UAE", "Hong Kong", "Singapore", "Japan", "Israel", "Mexico", "Brazil", "India", "South Africa"
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.456Z] <debug> |main| Updating model with external ip
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.457Z] <info> |main| External ip is 173.244.44.45
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.458Z] <debug> |tray| External ip changed
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.458Z] <debug> |tray| Regions changed
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.458Z] <debug> |tray| Refreshing menu
[2018-11-13T06:30:26.458Z] <debug> |tray| Translated status is "You are connected (US Seattle)"

The last string in log is what I need.

if you want conky to show your current ip address, this is what i have used :

^ yes that is simple and maybe sufficient.

the dialog from your screenshot looks like part of the networkmanager applet in your systray.
networkmanager has a full command line interface; readto see what's possible. probably it can be asked to spit out the info you want.
then all you need inside your conky is sth like

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@ //////-Thx, but'm already displaying external ip with this command: "External IP:$alignr${execi 3600 curl ifconfig.me | tail }". It seems to work OK, and it's not too different from your command. At-any-rate, it's the location of the ip I want to display.

@ ondoho- Thx for that!

Its like nmcli doesn't even see pia. Ive tried several commands. I can see devices, connections, and get loads of info, but no mention of pia or its connection location. The command, "nmcli --show-secrets connection show "connection id""is interesting, and even shows my wifi password, but no command I try has any mention of pia. I ran commands with and without vpn connected and none of the info changed.

Although nmcli may be a more glamorous solution I think using log file will suffice for my goals. I already know that at any given time the last line of pia log provide me the location as a string. The log always ends with a line like this:

[2018-11-15T02:38:41.807Z] <debug> |tray| Translated status is "You are connected (Canada Vancouver)"

The only thing being different is the date and location. I was able to print this line in conky by using this:

${exec cat /home/jj1/.pia_manager/log/pia_nw.log | tail -n 1}

Im not sure if cat is appropriate function to use, but considering Ive been a Windows monkey for so long Im actaully happy I was able to make that work What I really need is to display only the string part of the line. Part of the string changes from, "You are connected", to, "Connecting...", when I switch to another location, and considering that the charictor count of the location name is different for each location, I can't use something like a substring length, or position. The function needs to search for the quotes, and print whats within them in a dynamic fasion.

I have a solution.
End of log file.
I used this to extract desired substring:
I came across other solutions, but this one seems optimum to me.

Resulting output:
Canada Vancouver
https://i.stack.imgur.com/SRNlP.png