Specify different location for data download

For v0.99, I can’t seem to figure out how to specify a different location in which to download the data, for instance, I’d like it to go in mnt/data/spacy/en instead of the default location. I’ve tried install_data, but can’t quite get it to work.

Is this possible?

[henningpeters]

In spaCy 0.100.2 we introduced an official way to programmatically control the location of installed models:

import sputnik
import spacy
sputnik.install('spacy', spacy.about.__version__, 'en_default', data_path=data_path)
nlp = spacy.load('en_default', via=data_path)

where data_path is your custom model directory.

Please note that sputnik.install() will download the model first in case its not already installed.

Does this fit your original use-case well enough?

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