QGIS is a great software for the processing/analysis of spatial data, Python is a clear, powerful programming lenguaje; together they can enhance the spatial analysis to solve more complex or more dedicated problems in less time. PyQGIS is the Python environment inside QGIS with a set of QGIS libraries plus the Python tools with the potential of running other powerful libraries as Pandas, Numpy or Scikit-learn.

This tutorial shows the whole procedure to upload multiple files from a certain pattern and group them on the Layer Panel using PyQGIS commands.

Tutorial

Code

This is the final PyQGIS code for the tutorial:

import os

route = "C:\Users\Saul\Documents\Ih_HurricaneTrackingQGIS\Shps"

root = QgsProject.instance().layerTreeRoot()
shapeGroup = root.addGroup("shapePointGroup")

os.chdir(route)
wholelist = os.listdir(os.getcwd())

for file in wholelist:
    if "pts.shp" in file:
        if "xml" not in file:
            #print(file)
            fileroute=route+'\\'+file
            print(fileroute)
            filename = QgsVectorLayer(fileroute,file[:-4],"ogr")
            QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().addMapLayer(filename,False)
            shapeGroup.insertChildNode(1,QgsLayerTreeLayer(filename))