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Can you please tell me how I can programmatically (or from the console) access the loaded plugin list? I tried:
QgsProviderRegistry.pluginList()
but got:
TypeError: QgsProviderRegistry.pluginList(bool asHtml=False): first argument of unbound method must have type 'QgsProviderRegistry
I am sure I am missing something, but don't know what. How can I get access to the actual QgsProviderRegistry instance?
Actually, you would need to access the instance method of the QgsProviderRegistry class, since it is a singleton:
QgsProviderRegistry.instance().pluginList()
However, as you can see, it doesn't list QGIS plugins, but data provider plugins, which are used by QGIS to support different data formats such as WFS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS, GDAL, etc.
To achieve what you're looking for, type in the QGIS Python console:
qgis.utils.available_plugins
You could even access the list of active plugins (i.e., those plugins loaded by QGIS and not unchecked by the user):
qgis.utils.active_plugins
