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I've asked a similar question here: How to quickly calculate bounding box coordinates of a selected polygon with qgis

...regarding a quick way to determine the bounding box of a given layer.

Is there any way to do the same thing for the current qgis view? I imagine it is an iface property but cannot find it in the documentation. Thanks.

update: I'm working with the qgis print (map) creator right now, and I've found a button which appears to call a function that I'm alluding to. If you open the print creator, in the right side bar there is a menu button called "Item Properties". Click on this and below there is a submenu called "Extents". Expand that and there is a button called "Set to map canvas extent". This button appears to utilize the function I'm alluding to by extracting the bbox coords of the main qgis map view.

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This will return you the extent of the canvas. 

extent = iface.mapCanvas().extent()

Reference: http://qgis.org/api/classQgsMapCanvas.html#a878f0c387c9475d59c6aac425db01020

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  • Someone should make a plugin for this. I would but I don't know how to do that.
    – boulder_ruby
    Mar 26, 2015 at 3:00
  • To do what? If you need to see it in the UI you can get that info from the status bar.
    – Nathan W
    Mar 26, 2015 at 3:06
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    You asked how to get the info and I told you. This is how you get it using Python the UI method is in status bar.
    – Nathan W
    Sep 30, 2015 at 3:27
  • I'm not complaining! Its not like I was asking you to create a plugin for me. Thank you!
    – boulder_ruby
    Jan 27, 2016 at 0:49
  • Perhaps suggest a method to print the co-ordinates: print iface.mapCanvas().extent().asWktCoordinates();
    – Rob
    Nov 16, 2016 at 5:02

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