Algorithm qgis:joinattributesbylocation not found

Question

I would like to join attributes by location using standalone PyQGIS but I'm getting error. I have QGIS 3.16 installed on my machine.

from qgis.core import *

QgsApplication.setPrefixPath("C:/Program Files/QGIS 3.16/apps/qgis", True)
qgs = QgsApplication([], True)
QgsApplication.initQgis()

import processing
from processing.core.Processing import Processing
Processing.initialize()

processing.run("qgis:joinattributesbylocation", {
            'INPUT':'C:/Users/ja/Inne/Desktop/bdot10k_bubd_a/bdot10k_bubd_a.gpkg', 
            'JOIN':'C:/Users/ja/Inne/Desktop/POLSKA/PRG_PunktyAdresowe_POLSKA.shp',
            'PREDICATE':[1,5],
            'JOIN_FIELDS':['PNA','SIMC_id','SIMC_nazwa','ULIC_nazwa','Numer'],
            'METHOD':1,
            'DISCARD_NONMATCHING':True,
            'PREFIX':'',
            'OUTPUT':'C:/Users/ja/Inne/Desktop/projekt2.gpkg'})

And I'm getting the error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:/PROGRA~1/QGIS3~1.16/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\tools\general.py", line 108, in run return Processing.runAlgorithm(algOrName, parameters, onFinish, feedback, context) File "C:/PROGRA~1/QGIS3~1.16/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\core\Processing.py", line 141, in runAlgorithm raise QgsProcessingException(msg) _core.QgsProcessingException: Error: Algorithm qgis:joinattributesbylocation not found

What is the problem?

Answer 1

Solution:

I transfered folder "platforms" (C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.16\apps\qt5\plugins\platforms) to:

C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.16\bin

and

C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.16\apps\Python37

Answer 2

NNJoin

There is a more advanced plug with in QGIS plugin repo called NNJoin which joins two vector layers (the input and the join layer) based on nearest neighbor relationships.

please refer the page NNJoinPlugin