spacy Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm' on windows 10 and Python 3.5.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

Initially I downloaded two en packages using following statements in anaconda prompt.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

But, I kept on getting linkage error and finally running below command helped me to establish link and solved error.

python -m spacy download en

Also make sure you to restart your runtime if working with Jupyter.
-PS : If you get linkage error try giving admin previlages.

Open Anaconda Navigator. Click on any IDE. Run the code:

!pip install -U spacy download en_core_web_sm
!pip install -U spacy download en_core_web_sm

It will work. If you are open IDE directly close it and follow this procedure once.

For those who are still facing problems even after installing it as administrator from Anaconda prompt, here’s a quick fix:

1. Got to the path where it is downloaded. For e.g.

   C:UsersnameAppDataLocalContinuumanaconda3Libsite-packagesen_core_web_smen_core_web_sm-2.2.0
   

2. Copy the path.

3. Paste it in:

   nlp = spacy.load(r'C:UsersnameAppDataLocalContinuumanaconda3Libsite-packagesen_core_web_smen_core_web_sm-2.2.0')
   

4. Works like a charm 🙂

PS: Check for spacy version

The below worked for me :

import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

Loading the module using the different syntax worked for me.

import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

As for Windows based Anaconda,

1. Open Anaconda Prompt

2. Activate your environment. Ex: active myspacyenv

3. pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

4. python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

5. Open Jupyter Notebook ex: active myspacyenv and then jupyter notebook on Anaconda Promt

import spacy spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

and it will run peacefully!

Anaconda Users

1. If you’re using a conda virtual environment, be sure that its the same version of Python as that in your base environment. To verify this, run python --version in each environment. If not the same, create a new virtual environment with that version of Python (Ex. conda create --name myenv python=x.x.x).

2. Activate the virtual environment (conda activate myenv)

3. conda install -c conda-forge spacy
4. python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

I just ran into this issue, and the above worked for me. This addresses the issue of the download occurring in an area that is not accessible to your current virtual environment.

You should then be able to run the following:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

Using the Spacy language model in Colab requires only the following two steps:

1. Download the model (change the name according to the size of the model)

!python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg 

2. Restart the colab runtime!
   Perform shortcut key： Ctrl + M + .

Test

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg")

successful!!!

Open command prompt or terminal and execute the below code:

pip3 install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

Execute the below chunk in your Jupiter notebook.

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

Hope the above code works for all:)

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load('/opt/anaconda3/envs/NLPENV/lib/python3.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1')

Try giving the absolute path of the package with the version as shown in the image.

It works perfectly fine.

Steps to load up modules based on different versions of spacy

download the best-matching version of a specific model for your spaCy installation

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
pip install .tar.gz archive from path or URL
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

or

pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

Add to your requirements file or environment yaml file. Theres range of version that one spacy version is comptable with you can view more under https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases

if your not sure running below code

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') 

will give off a warning telling what version model will be compatible with your installed spacy verion

enironment.yml example

name: root
channels:
  - defaults
  - conda-forge
  - anaconda
dependencies:
  - python=3.8.3
  - pip
  - spacy=2.3.2
  - scikit-learn=0.23.2
  - pip:
    - https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1.tar.gz#egg=en_core_web_sm

I tried all the above answers but could not succeed. Below worked for me :

(Specific to WINDOWS os)

1. Run anaconda command prompt with admin privilege(Important)
2. Then run below commands:

  pip install -U --user spacy    
  python -m spacy download en

3. Try below command for verification:

import spacy
spacy.load('en')

4. It might work for others versions as well:
   

I had also same issue as I couldnt load module using ”’spacy.load()”’
You can follow below steps to solve this on windows:

1. download using !python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
2. import en_core_web_sm as import en_core_web_sm
3. load using en_core_web_sm.load() to some variable

Complete code will be:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

First of all, install spacy using the following command for jupyter notebook
pip install -U spacy

Then write the following code:

import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

If you have already downloaded spacy and the language model (E.g., en_core_web_sm or en_core_web_md), then you can follow these steps:

1. Open Anaconda prompt as admin

2. Then type : python -m spacy link [package name or path] [shortcut]

   For E.g., python -m spacy link /Users/you/model en

This will create a symlink to the your language model. Now you can load the model using spacy.load("en") in your notebooks or scripts

This is what I did:

1. Went to the virtual environment where I was working on Anaconda Prompt / Command Line

2. Ran this: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

And was done

This works with colab:

!python -m spacy download en
import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

Or for the medium:

import en_core_web_md
nlp = en_core_web_md.load()

I am running Jupyter Notebook on Windows.

Finally, its a version issue, Need to execute below commands in conda cmd prompt( open as admin)

• pip install spacy==2.3.5

• python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

• python -m spacy download en

from chatterbot import ChatBot
import spacy
import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()
ChatBot("hello")

Output –

a simple solution for this which I saw on spacy.io

from spacy.lang.en import English
nlp=English()

https://course.spacy.io/en/chapter1

Instead of any of the above, this solved my error.

conda install -c conda-forge spacy-model-en_core_web_sm

If you are an anaconda user, this is the solution.

I’m running PyCharm on MacOS and while none of the above answers completely worked for me, they did provide enough clues and I was finally able to everything working. I am connecting to an ec2 instance and have configured PyCharm such that I can edit on my Mac and it automatically updates the files on my ec2 instance. Thus, the problem was on the ec2 side where it was not finding Spacy even though I installed it several different times and ways. If I ran my python script from the command line, everything worked fine. However, from within PyCharm, it was initially not finding Spacy and the models. I eventually fixed the "finding" spacy issue using the above recommendation of adding a "requirements.txt" file. But the models were still not recognized.

My solution: download the models manually and place them in the file system on the ec2 instance and explicitly point to them when loaded. I downloaded the files from here:

https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz

https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_lg-3.0.0/en_core_web_lg-3.0.0.tar.gz

After downloading, I dropped moved them to my ec2 instance, decompressed and untared them in my filesystem, e.g. /path_to_models/en_core_web_lg-3.0.0/

I then load a model using the explicit path and it worked from within PyCharm (note the path used goes all the way to en_core_web_lg-3.0.0; you will get an error if you do not use the folder with the config.cfg file):

nlpObject = spacy.load('/path_to_models/en_core_web_lg-3.0.0/en_core_web_lg/en_core_web_lg-3.0.0')

Try this method as this worked like a charm to me:

In your Anaconda Prompt, run the command:

!python -m spacy download en

After running the above command, you should be able to execute the below in your jupyter notebook:

spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

TRY THIS :-
!python -m spacy download en_core_web_md

Even I faced similar issue. How I resolved it

1. start anaconda prompt in admin mode.
2. installed both
   python -m spacy download en
   and
   python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
   after above steps only I started jupyter notebook where I am accessing this package.
   Now I can access both
   import spacy
   nlp = spacy.load(‘en_core_web_sm’)
   or
   nlp = spacy.load(‘en’)
   Both are working for me.

I faced a similar issue. I installed spacy and en_core_web_sm from a specific conda environment. However, I got two(02) differents issues as following:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘….en_core_web_smen_core_web_sm-2.3.1vocablexemes.bin’
or
OSError: [E050] Can’t find model ‘en_core_web_sm’…. It doesn’t seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

I did the following:

1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator
2. Go to c:>
3. Activate my Conda environment (If you work in a specific conda environment):

c:>activate <conda environment name>

4. (conda environment name)c:>python -m spacy download en
5. Return to Jupyter Notebook and you can load the language library:

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

For me, it works 🙂

Download en_core_web_sm tar file

Open terminal from anaconda or open anaconda evn.
Run this:

pip3 install /Users/yourpath/Downloads/en_core_web_sm-3.1.0.tar.gz;

or

pip install /Users/yourpath/Downloads/en_core_web_sm-3.1.0.tar.gz;

Restart jupyter, it will work.

Check installed version of spacy
pip show spacy
You will get something like this:

Name: spacy
Version: 3.1.3
Summary: Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

Install the relevant version of the model using:
!pip install -U https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz

Run this in os console:

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

Then run this in python console or on your python IDE:

import spacy
spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

Don’t run !python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg from inside jupyter.
Do this instead:

import spacy.cli
spacy.cli.download("en_core_web_lg")

You may need to restart the kernel before running the above two commands for it to work.

This worked for me:
conda install -c conda-forge spacy-model-en_core_web_sm

Best is to follow the official spacy docs for installation (https://spacy.io/usage):

First uninstall your current spacy version

pip uninstall spacy

Then install pacy correctly

pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm