How Do I Download Models Using PIP?

[CopBlaster]

I installed Spacy but from what I am reading I also need a model for English. Spacy's installation directions say "python -m spacy download en_core_web_md". Since this is my first Python project I have no clue what that means. I tried typing it into my .py file and running it in Visual Studio only to get a syntax error.

According to Spacy that should not be my only option "Models can be installed from a download URL or a local directory, manually or via pip." Unfortunately, they do not say how to download using PIP. They say it can be done and offer no tips as to how.

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Well, I managed to finally find the manual download link on GitHub, the problem was that the Spacy website links to it as "Release Details" instead of "download" or similar language.

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I unzipped the files and copied them to my project in Visual Studio, but when I try to run setup.py I get an error that says:

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error file has both Unicode marker and PEP-263 file encoding. You must use "utf-8" as the encoding name when a BOM is present. PDFParser C:\Users\suername\source\repos\PDFParser\PDFParser\en_core_web_md-2.2.5\setup.py 2

My project looks like this:

This is where a screenshot would go if I could upload one, but instead this form wants the URL of an image already uploaded elsewhere.

[menator01]

python -m pip install <package> where package is the module you want to install

[Larz60+]

Installation instructions here: https://spacy.io/models , not pypi version, so pip won't work

[hussainmujtaba]

To install SpaCy, type these two lines of code one by one in your command prompt

pip install spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm