How do I access grease pencil data?

Question

I would like to be able to extract start and end points of grease pencil line tool, the one used for annotations in 2.80.

It would be great if I can get the data in 3d view and 2d screen view in Python.

thanks

Answer 1

Grease Pencil (GP) data structure is like this:

GP-Object --> GP-Layers --> GP-Frames --> GP-Strokes --> GP-Stroke-Points

Now, the python commands to get different GP-data,

#1) To get the GP-Object data  
GPObj = bpy.data.objects['GP Object Name'].data

#2) To get the GP-layers, use layer name or index.
GPLyr = GPObj.layers['Layer Name']

#3) To get the GP-Frames, use index. But there are other properties of the layer
#   you can access e.g., opacity, thickness, select, etc. You can add or remove the frame.
GPFrm = GPLyr.frames[0]

#4) To get the GP-strokes, use index. You can add or remove a stroke, change the
#   display-mode, line-width, material index, etc. 
GPStk = GPFrm.strokes[0]

#5) To get the GP-points, you can use the index to get individual points.
#   You can add or remove points. 
GPPts = GPStk.points

and each point has info about the location, pressure, strength, uv-rotation, etc. With the help of "foreach_get()" function, you can get the location (or pressure, strength, uv-rotation) of all the points.

#6) To get the location of single GP-point
loc = GPPts[0].co

Answer 2

Use the grease pencil API:

https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.GreasePencil.html

Drill down through the layers and frames and strokes to get to the points:

https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.GPencilStrokePoints.html