Spacy: Downloading a model has failed

[andrazhribernik]

After installing Spacy I run the following command

python -m spacy.en.download

and got the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/en/download.py", line 13, in <module>
    plac.call(main)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 328, in call
    cmd, result = parser.consume(arglist)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 207, in consume
    return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/en/download.py", line 9, in main
    download('en', force)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/download.py", line 24, in download
    package = sputnik.install(about.__title__, about.__version__, about.__models__[lang])
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/__init__.py", line 37, in install
    index.update()
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/index.py", line 84, in update
    index = json.load(session.open(request, 'utf8'))
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/session.py", line 43, in open
    r = self.opener.open(request)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1240, in https_open
    context=self._context)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>

It seems that server where models are stored is down. It could be that I am missing something. Thanks for your help.

[Kharms]

+1, having the same issue.

[honnibal]

Thanks for the report — this is probably related to the hand-over described here: https://www.spacy.io/blog/announcement
Will have more info for you over the next 12 hours.

[andrazhribernik]

@honnibal is there any easy workaround to load a model from a local file?

[honnibal]

import spacy.en

nlp = English(data_dir='/path/to/model')

[ankitppatel]

@honnibal when I try your work around to access the English model i get the following error:

'''

IOError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
1 import spacy.en
----> 2 nlp = English(data_dir='/path/to/model')

/Users/ankitpatel/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/language.pyc in init(self, data_dir, vocab, tokenizer, tagger, parser, entity, matcher, serializer, load_vectors, package, vectors_package)
176
177 if vocab in (None, True):
--> 178 vocab = self.default_vocab(package, vectors_package=vectors_package)
179 self.vocab = vocab
180 if tokenizer in (None, True):

/Users/ankitpatel/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/language.pyc in default_vocab(cls, package, get_lex_attr, vectors_package)
110 if hasattr(package, 'dir_path'):
111 return Vocab.from_package(package, get_lex_attr=get_lex_attr,
--> 112 vectors_package=vectors_package)
113 else:
114 return Vocab.load(package, get_lex_attr)

/Users/ankitpatel/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/vocab.pyx in spacy.vocab.Vocab.from_package (spacy/vocab.cpp:3584)()
62 lemmatizer=lemmatizer, serializer_freqs=serializer_freqs)
63
---> 64 with package.open(('vocab', 'strings.json')) as file_:
65 self.strings.load(file_)
66 self.load_lexemes(package.file_path('vocab', 'lexemes.bin'))

/Users/ankitpatel/anaconda/lib/python2.7/contextlib.pyc in enter(self)
15 def enter(self):
16 try:
---> 17 return self.gen.next()
18 except StopIteration:
19 raise RuntimeError("generator didn't yield")

/Users/ankitpatel/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/package_stub.pyc in open(self, path_parts, mode, encoding, default)
65 else:
66 if isinstance(default, type) and issubclass(default, Exception):
---> 67 raise default(self.file_path(*path_parts))
68 elif isinstance(default, Exception):
69 raise default

IOError: /path/to/model/vocab/strings.json'''

[honnibal]

This should be fixed now.

When I moved the website, I forgot to add a CNAME record for index.spacy.io, which serves the data packages.

[marcotcr]

I'm having this issue now, and index.spacy.io cannot be found either.

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