Failed to download NLTK data: HTTP ERROR 405 / 403

>>> nltk.download("all")
[nltk_data] Error loading all: HTTP Error 405: Not allowed.

>>> nltk.version_info
sys.version_info(major=3, minor=5, micro=2, releaselevel='final', serial=0)

Also, I tried to visit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nltk/nltk_data/gh-pages/packages/corpora/cmudict.zip. Got the same HTTP 405 ERROR.

Find the same problem on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45318066/getting-405-while-trying-to-download-nltk-dta

Any comments would be appreciated.

[rvause]

@plaihonen you should be able to use this alternative index by doing something like python -m nltk.downloader -u https://pastebin.com/raw/D3TBY4Mj punkt

[alvations]

It seems like the Github is down/blocking access to the raw content on the repo.

Meanwhile the temporary solution is something like this:

PATH_TO_NLTK_DATA=/home/username/nltk_data/
wget https://github.com/nltk/nltk_data/archive/gh-pages.zip
unzip gh-pages.zip
mv nltk_data-gh-pages/ $PATH_TO_NLTK_DATA

Currently downloading the gh-pages.zip and replacing the nltk_data directory is the working solution for now.

Before we find on another channel to distribute nltk_data, please use the above solution.

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~Strangely, it only seems to affect the nltk user account. It works fine on the fork: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alvations/nltk_data/gh-pages/index.xml~

~Doing this would work too:~