Solved — Can’t find model ‘en_core_web_sm’

Johan Louwers
2 min readDec 30, 2022
spaCy — Python NLP

Trying to take the first steps with spaCy in Python and already hitting the first issue in your code. It could very likely be that the first issue you encountered is the following;

Can’t find model ‘en_core_web_sm’. It doesn’t seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

Solving the issue

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Johan Louwers

Johan Louwers is a technology enthousiasts with a long background in supporting enterprises and startups alike as CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect and developer.