Running QChainage from python script in QGIS?

Question

I'm fairly experienced in both python and QGIS but not so much together.

I have a series of vector lines I need to run the very useful QChainage plug-in on to get points every 1000m. I have about 200 of these .shp files and have already written a rough script to reproject and dissolve them using the processing module, but I am not sure how to do that in the script. I am guessing the code would look something like this:

Qchainage.run(input='input.shp', distance=1000, output='output.shp')

But obviously that doesn't seem to be working. I cna't find any documentation on running qchainage from python either.

Answer 1

Figured it out, the important parts are:

from qchainage import chainagetool

to import the necessary function, and:

 chainagetool.points_along_line(layerout='Output_name',
 startpoint=,
 endpoint=,
 distance=,
 label=,
 layer=layer,
 selected_only=False,
 force=False,
 fo_fila=False,
 divide=0,
 decimal=2)