Spacy link error

Question

When running:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en')

the following is printed:

Warning: no model found for 'en' Only loading the 'en' tokenizer.

/site-packages/spacy/data is empty with the exception of the init file. all filepaths are only pointing to my single installation of python.

Any help appreciated on resolving this.

Thanks! Will

Hi Will, if any of the answers here solved your problem, kindly accept it as the answer :) — zelusp, Aug 10 '17 at 17:40

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '17 at 10:57

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I had this same issue when I tried this on Windows 10 - the problem was the output of python -m spacy.en.download all said Linking successful but above that was the message that the symbolic link wasn't actually created, due to permissions.

Running python -m spacy.en.download all as an Adminstrator fixed the problem.

answered May 03 '17 at 10:57

Nick

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Using Ubuntu putting `sudo python -m spacy.en.download all` solved my issue. Thanks. – AER Jun 05 '17 at 06:24
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Syntax changed in the latest version to "python -m spacy download en". – hkyi Aug 23 '17 at 08:29
I'm getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy.gold' – aerin Jun 15 '18 at 18:09

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '17 at 03:10

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You might need to install the specific module too after installing spacy. Try:

python -m spacy.en.download all

Here is the reference link: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spacy

answered Apr 20 '17 at 03:10

sakshi

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score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 05:19

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run cmd as an administrator ,then download the model en package

python -m spacy download en

answered Jul 06 '18 at 05:19

Bibin Johny

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That helps. if you're using Mac OS, see [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38916461/valueerror-unknown-locale-utf-8-when-importing-pandas-in-python-2-7/38917471#38917471) – Itay Sep 16 '18 at 14:36
nothing worked, but this solved the problem: thanks – Giuppox Oct 29 '20 at 09:49

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 09 '18 at 07:50

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If you’ve installed a model via pip, you can also import it directly and then call its load() method:

python -m spacy download en

import spacy
import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_.load()
doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')

answered Jan 09 '18 at 07:50

Deepak

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This helped me as I dont have admin permissions on work laptop. Thank you. – mockash Dec 02 '20 at 13:24

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 31 '17 at 00:06

In my case I had a previous installation of spacy that had created the symlink.

ls -al "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/spacy/data/en"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 74 Dec  5 00:40 /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/spacy/data/en -> /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/en_core_web_sm/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0

rm "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/spacy/data/en"

python3 -m spacy download en

And then everything is good.

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 27 '18 at 09:57

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This works for Ubuntu users.

sudo python -m spacy download en

answered Mar 27 '18 at 09:57

Shubham Jain

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 19 '20 at 08:42

When you use spaCy's download command, it will create shortcut links automatically.

python -m spacy download en

But if you already have downloaded the model, you don't need to download it again, you can create a link using the link command.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
python -m spacy link en_core_web_sm en

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 03:37

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I got around this by simply importing the model instead of performing nlp = spacy.load('en')

answered Apr 21 '17 at 03:37

user7899211

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Please put this as a comment under question as it seems more like a partial answer at this point. – CodeMonkey Apr 21 '17 at 03:55

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 02 '20 at 17:07

If python -m spacy download en does not work for you (permissions, etc.), you can download the model first and then pip install it. For example, this is for version 2.3:

https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.3.0/en_core_web_sm-2.3.0.tar.gz

The .tar.gz archive is the same file that's downloaded during spacy download, and is installable:

pip install /path/to/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz

Then you can do:

import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Nov 02 '21 at 16:42

Delete the existing one
```
pip uninstall spacy 
```
install the spacy
```
pip install spacy==2.3.5     
```

Support for Spacy 3 was added. In prior versions of Rasa Open Source, to install spaCy with its language model for the English language, you need to additionally run python3 -m spacy link en_core_web_md en.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_md 

once symbolic link created for C:\Users\ABC\Anaconda3\envs\RasaBot\lib\site-packages\spacy\data\en <<===>> C:\Users\ABC\Anaconda3\envs\RasaBot\lib\site-packages\en_core_web_md
✔ Linking successful
C:\Users\ABC\Anaconda3\envs\RasaBot\lib\site-packages\en_core_web_md -->
C:\Users\ABC\Anaconda3\envs\RasaBot\lib\site-packages\spacy\data\en
You can now load the model via spacy.load('en')

score -1 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 23 '17 at 05:18

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In windows user name can be added in "Create symbolic link" in "Local security policy" before downloading en. It is working for me.

answered Aug 23 '17 at 05:18

user2550098

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score -2 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 01 '17 at 07:50

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First you need to train the model. After training, You need to go through a saving and loading process. After that, I hope It'll work. Good Luck. Since they updated the spacy version, find it Here

answered Jul 01 '17 at 07:50

No, you don't need to train the default English models that Spacy provides. – lucid_dreamer Jun 11 '18 at 21:35

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