Connection refused downloading English models spaCy 1.6

Description

I’m getting an exception urllib2.URLError “Connection refused” when trying to download the English models using spacy==1.6.0

In a clean virtualenv I’ve only installed spacy==1.6.0 and immediately after I’ve run:

python -m spacy.en.download all

This command raises an exception with the following stack trace:

➜  ~ python -m spacy.en.download all
Downloading parsing model
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "[...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/en/download.py", line 25, in <module>
    plac.call(main)
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 328, in call
    cmd, result = parser.consume(arglist)
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 207, in consume
    return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
  File "[...]/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/en/download.py", line 18, in main
    download('en', force=False, data_path=data_path)
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/download.py", line 36, in download
    about.__models__.get(lang, lang), data_path)
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/__init__.py", line 37, in install
    index.update()
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/index.py", line 84, in update
    index = json.load(session.open(request, 'utf8'))
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/session.py", line 43, in open
    r = self.opener.open(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1240, in https_open
    context=self._context)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

It looks like the server to download the models for this old version of spaCy is down.

My Environment

• Operating System: Debian 8 64 bits
• Python Version Used: Python 2.7.9
• spaCy Version Used: 1.6.0

[lexotero]

@ines It seems that is down again. I cannot get the models for the last two days.

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