Cannot deploy on Heroku using Flask

In the code I am using:

spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

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

Also tried installing:

spacy==2.0.18
https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_md-2.0.0/en_core_web_md-2.0.0.tar.gz#egg=en_core_web_md==2.0.0

import spacy
import en_core_web_md
nlp = en_core_web_md.load()

Problem still occurs

Tried to put the model in the static folder but it does not recognize it. Are there any workarounds? Thank you

[adrianeboyd]

It’s probably best to figure out why the model package install isn’t working with pip, since those requirements look fine. (The download is failing, it’s not being installed in the right environment, etc. ?)

Possible workarounds: you can download the .tar.gz file from that link and install it directly with pip from a local path, or if you download and unpack the file, the model itself is a subdirectory and you can load it from the full path with spacy.load() instead of using the package name.

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