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

Unchancy

Hi Will, if any of the answers here solved your problem, kindly accept it as the answer :) – Millford

Answer 1

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.

Antagonism

Using Ubuntu putting sudo python -m spacy.en.download all solved my issue. Thanks. – Kessinger

Syntax changed in the latest version to "python -m spacy download en". – Eboni

I'm getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy.gold' – Trouveur

Answer 2

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

Saccharin

Answer 3

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

python -m spacy download en

Lorilee

That helps. if you're using Mac OS, see this – Proceeds

nothing worked, but this solved the problem: thanks 🙏 – Gardol

Answer 4

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.')

Primitivism

This helped me as I dont have admin permissions on work laptop. Thank you. – Adoptive

Answer 5

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.

Boneset

Answer 6

This works for Ubuntu users.

sudo python -m spacy download en

Ideologist

Answer 7

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

Marras

Answer 8

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

Beera

Please put this as a comment under question as it seems more like a partial answer at this point. – Deceptive

Answer 9

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()

Gorgonian

Answer 10

1. Delete the existing one

   pip uninstall spacy 
   

2. install the spacy

   pip install spacy==2.3.5     
   

3. 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')
   

Tangier

Answer 11

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

Byer

Answer 12

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

Barometry

No, you don't need to train the default English models that Spacy provides. – Boneset