Not able to load English language module of spacy with spacy.load('en')

Question

I am not able to load the English model in jupyter notebook with below code-

!pip install spacy
import spacy
spacy.load('en')

Error message:

OSError Traceback (most recent call last) in () ----> 1 spacy.load('en')

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy_init_.py in load(name, **overrides) 19 if depr_path not in (True, False, None): 20 deprecation_warning(Warnings.W001.format(path=depr_path)) ---> 21 return util.load_model(name, **overrides) 22 23

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy\util.py in load_model(name, **overrides) 117 elif hasattr(name, 'exists'): # Path or Path-like to model data 118 return load_model_from_path(name, **overrides) --> 119 raise IOError(Errors.E050.format(name=name)) 120 121

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

I have installed python version 2.7.15, 3.6.7, 3.7.1 and Anaconda3 5.3.1

I have downloaded the spacy package with

!pip install spacy

and English package with

python -m spacy download en

in anaconda prompt

Answer 1

Edit: Based on your comments it seems you downloaded the model but couldn't link it. You do not have permission to do it, check here and give permission to current user. After that download model with same script:

python -m spacy download en

Check here, there is a brief description of the error.

Answer 2

I installed Spyder and anoconda which allowed me to run spacy but only in Spyder. Try that to see if you can run from there.

Update

Try using the following instead

pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy download en

The use this in your code:

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