In this video, I will take a closer look at how to automate processes in QGIS using python and demonstrate many tricks to make automating with python in QGIS much easier than you think.

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Chapters
0:00 Automating QGIS using Python
1:00 Four methods of automation
1:20 The visual model builder
2:13 The batch processing
2:40 Python notebooks (Anaconda or google colab)
3:50 The python console in QGIS
4:35 QGIS project structure suitably for automatic
5:30 Creating a project structure suitably for automatic
6:40 Setting the home directory (project home) in QGIS
7:23 Why setting the home directory in a QGIS project is important
8:26 Creating a frame for clipping the other layers
10:55 Using the processing tools GUI to build the snippets of the automation
11:28 Densify before clipping layers with different projections
13:04 Copying the python command snippet
13:40 Formatting the Python code for easier reading
14:50 Getting parameter help in the python console
16:30 Creating the clip files snippet
18:40 Creating the reproject files snippet
20:45 The generic QGIS python console snippet and the project home path
21:55 The python os.path library
22:53 Making the densify tool command more generic
23:36 Creating a list of files to iterate over (all layers in a folder)
24:45 iterating over the list of files (clipping them)
25:47 iterating over the list of files (reprojecting them)
27:33 Running the python program in the python console in QGIS
28:35 Summing up the process of creating python automation in QGIS