Getting Started with PyQGIS , Python for Qgis (Series Part 2): Automating Qgis Tools

[@StefanoVerugi]

I normally use Field Calculator or Spatialite but I can see PyQGIS is very promising. Let's hope you are going to make more of these videos, the available documentation is quite difficult to consult if you are not an experienced programmer, thanks a lot for your help, much needed!

[@MiningGeologist]

Thank you Stefano for your comment ! I'll share more for sure stay tuned !

[@AnimationLook]

Thank you, you told everything very informatively. Can you please make a tutorial on creating tools using the script editor. I would also like to see the development of a plugin (plugin builder + plugin reloader). I would like to make a tool that: 1) drew the shortest lines from points to the river 2) extended these lines 3) Divided the river with extended lines

[@somdeepkundu2506]

Fascinating

[@umee1999]

Thanks a lot , great.

[@MrSheymie]

Very nice to see how easy it is to apply existing tools and pass in parameters. I am looking to daisy chain several tools. This shows me I can do it. Thanks. Cute song by the way!

[@MiningGeologist]

Yes, that's possible and you can do amazing things this way!

[@umaraliarshad7454]

There only two videos in this series?

[@StefanoVerugi]

using Tools in PyQGIS when you open the window and type all needed parameters. instead of running it go to the bottom left > advanced > copy as Python command and copy the script with all the settings, very useful feature

[@MiningGeologist]

Thank you Stefano for the suggestion, but I m not sure which Qgis version you have because I can't see such an option in my Qgis. Also, it might be with certain tools only if we have the same version. one more thing you can do to get the settings without the need to type them is to run the tool once, and then in the processing menu, or in the log panel you can copy all the settings from there as Python code and tweak them if you want to.

[@StefanoVerugi]

​@@MiningGeologist Hi thanks for the reply, I am using the most recent 3.32 Lima but it was already available in previous ones (as far as I remember). It is in the same 'Clip' in Geoprocessing Tools you show in the video but the 'Advanced' feature is available in other tools too. As you wrote another option is to go to the processing menu and it works just as fine. Looking forward to the next video 🙂

[@MiningGeologist]

@@StefanoVerugi Thanks Stefano, I running Qgis 3.22 and I can't see this option I'll check a newer version of Qgis!

[@somdeepkundu2506]

Please make more videos