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Frits Verstraten
Frits Verstraten

Reputation: 2189

Corpora/stopwords not found when import nltk library

I trying to import the nltk package in python 2.7

  import nltk
  stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')
  print(stopwords[:10])

Running this gives me the following error:

LookupError: 
**********************************************************************
Resource 'corpora/stopwords' not found.  Please use the NLTK
Downloader to obtain the resource:  >>> nltk.download()

So therefore I open my python termin and did the following:

import nltk  
nltk.download()

Which gives me:

showing info https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nltk/nltk_data/gh-pages/index.xml

However this does not seem to stop. And running it again still gives me the same error. Any thoughts where this goes wrong?

Upvotes: 99

Views: 249322

Answers (12)

VIDYA RENUKA
VIDYA RENUKA

Reputation: 239

import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
words=stopwords.words('english')[0:20]
print(words)

Upvotes: 0

Darshan Jain
Darshan Jain

Reputation: 29

in my case after running

import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

it did not work. The issue was wordnet.zip was unabale to unzip on its own so simple go to folder wherepython3 -m textblob.download_corpora this command installed package and unzip folder

cd ~
cd nltk_data/corpora/
unzip stopwords.zip

Upvotes: -1

Karthikeyan VK
Karthikeyan VK

Reputation: 6016

Installed the ntlk and imported the stopwords

!pip3 install nltk
import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

Upvotes: 0

user3636989
user3636989

Reputation: 191

check what error you are getting --

python3 -m nltk.downloader stopwords

Error :

RuntimeWarning: 'nltk.downloader' found in sys.modules after import of package 'nltk', but prior to execution of 'nltk.downloader'; this may result in unpredictable behaviour


warn(RuntimeWarning(msg))
[nltk_data] Error loading stopwords: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed:
[nltk_data]     unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1123)>

Use the solution provided my @reshma2k

Upvotes: 1

deevas
deevas

Reputation: 31

Use GPU runtime, it will not give you any error.

The same code will work which you are using

import nltk
stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')
print(stopwords[:10])

Upvotes: 3

factorThis
factorThis

Reputation: 74

I know the comment is quite late, but if it helps:

Although the nltk.download('stopwords') will do the job, there might be times when it won't work due to proxy issues if your organization has blocked it.

I found this github link pretty handy, from where I can just pick up the list of words and integrate it manually in my project just as a workaround.

Upvotes: 1

Reshma2k
Reshma2k

Reputation: 179

if you get an SSL/Certificate error, run the following command.

This works by disabling SSL check!

import nltk
import ssl

try:
    _create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
    pass
else:
    ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context

nltk.download()

Upvotes: 14

Kurt Bourbaki
Kurt Bourbaki

Reputation: 12616

You are currently trying to download every item in nltk data, so this can take long. You can try downloading only the stopwords that you need:

import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

Or from command line (thanks to Rafael Valero's answer):

python -m nltk.downloader stopwords

Reference:

Upvotes: 172

Srushti
Srushti

Reputation: 1

showing info https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nltk/nltk_data/gh-pages/index.xml

If you are running this command in a jupyter notebook, it opens another window titled 'NLTK Downloader'. Once you go in that window, you can select the topics you want to download and then click on download button to start downloading.

Until you close the NLTK Downloader window, the cell in the Jupyter keeps on running.

Upvotes: 0

Umesh
Umesh

Reputation: 197

You can do this in separately in console.
It will give you a result.

import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

I used jupyter console when I faced this problem.

Upvotes: 15

R Kumar
R Kumar

Reputation: 721

If your PC uses proxy for connectivity, then try this:

import nltk

nltk.set_proxy('http://proxy.example.com:3128', ('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'))
nltk.download('stopwords')

Upvotes: 5

Rafael Valero
Rafael Valero

Reputation: 2816

The some as mentioned here by Kurt Bourbaki but in the command line:

python -m nltk.downloader stopwords

Upvotes: 46

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