Reputation: 838

Spacy nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg")

I already have spaCy downloaded, but everytime I try the nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg"), command, I get this error:

OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_lg'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

I already tried

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

and this does not work like it would on my personal computer.

My question is how do I work around this? What directory specifically do I need to drop the spacy en model into on my computer so that it is found?

Upvotes: 34

Answers (9)

WelshmanofSteel

Reputation: 1

I discovered that Visual Studio 2022 solution with a python project and environment defined was ignoring the python environment. Python commands in terminal window wrote everything to the default Python Apps location under the C:/Users/Appdata location. Which caused the environment scripts to fail :-(

It did this for User and Admin user rights.

However opening the same folder and environment in Visual Studio Code saw no issues executing en_core_web_lg with it in the correct location and accessible to the scripts seeking to consume it.

Flipping back to Visual Studio 2022 I was relieved to see that the issues it had experienced were resolved by it's younger, and free cousin.

Perhaps the dev team for Studio and Code should have a coffee together

Upvotes: -1

Claudio Torre

Reputation: 11

I used:

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

having generated a .exe with PyInstaller, considering that in the python interpreter environment the software worked well. When executing the .exe the following error occurred:

Error: Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

I was able to solve it by watching this video.

It was necessary to replace the statement

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

in my source program with

nlp = spacy.load("C:\Users\claud\OneDrive\Desktop\Python312\.venv\Lib\site-packages\en_core_web_sm \en_core_web_sm-3.7.1")
nlp = spacy.load("C:/Users/claud/OneDrive/Desktop/Python312/.venv/Lib/site-packages/en_core_web_sm/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1")

That is, as the video explains, I directly replaced "en_core_web_sm" with the address on my Windows 11 notebook where the spacy library (python -m spacy download en).

Upvotes: 1

Abdul Rehman

Reputation: 11

i was getting the same error , Now i am able to solve it by installing "en_core_web_lg" again.Use these steps:

Check Pyhton version using python --version
if your python version is python 2. xx version then install using pip install -U spacy and for python 3. xx version pip3 install -U spacy
install using python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg.Incase it shows the same error , install direcelty using pip3 install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/de_core_news_lg-3.2.0/de_core_news_lg-3.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.

Upvotes: 1

Jingwen Zhang

Reputation: 101

import spacy

spacy.cli.download("en_core_web_sm")
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

This works for me! I also searched a lot and found this answer there: How to download additional files from modules on pycharm

Upvotes: 10

Talha Tayyab

Reputation: 27375

!python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

from your Jupyter cell, then:

[Ctrl+M] or `Restart runtime`

from menu bar on top of Jupyter notebook

Upvotes: 1

Chandan Gupta

Reputation: 722

import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

If this works, it'd indicate that the problem is related to the way spaCy detects installed packages. If it doesn't work and gives you an ImportError, it means that the Python environment the model was installed in is not the same as your Jupyter environment.

Also, maybe double-check that the model installed correctly? Models are installed as Python packages by running pip in a subprocess. And pip errors can sometimes be a bit subtle and not immediately obvious in the output.

Upvotes: 1

LAXMAN SINGH

Reputation: 26

In case pip install en_core_web_sm worked fine for you. You could apply en_core_web_sm.load() and store this into variable which will work similar to the command you are trying to do.

Failure of spacy.load could be due to the path setup for getting the library.

For more details you can read : I have explained custom NER in detail too.

https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/spacy-knowing-these-secrets-will-make-wonderful-package-look-amazing-e0f53775720e

Upvotes: 0

Ajay John Alex

Reputation: 913

For a Linux system run the below code in terminal if you would be using a virtual environment else skip first and second command :

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

The downloaded language model can be found at :

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/en_core_web_lg -->
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/spacy/data/en_core_web_lg

For more documentation information refer https://spacy.io/usage

Hope it was helpful.

Upvotes: 40

ASHu2

Reputation: 2047

Commands to install any package from spacy check here about en_ore_web_lg ~800MB:

python -m spacy download en

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Upvotes: 10

Spacy nlp = spacy.load(&quot;en_core_web_lg&quot;)

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