Download of 1.6 en model fails with ssl exception

[tmbo]

When trying to download the en model with spacy 1.6(using python -m spacy.en.download all) the download fails with:

urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)>

[ines]

Damn, looks like the SSL certificate might have expired!

In the meantime, you can always download the models manually from the v1.6 release on GitHub (just drop the data directory into spacy/data). Our download server will soon be rerouted to download these files as well.

[honnibal]

Fixed the certificate -- sorry for the delay.

[sankethpb]

We still get this error and are unable to install models using python -m spacy.en.download all
Spacy version - 1.7.2
Could you please help here?

[ines]

@sankethpb The spacy.en.download all command is deprecated in v1.7+. You can now download the default English model with python -m spacy download en.

For more info on the available models and new download commands, see the models documentation.

[sankethpb]

I used the new command python -m spacy download en with Spacy V1.7.2
I still get [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] error on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[ines]

@sankethpb Hm, this is very strange – the downloader gets the model URLs from our models repo on GitHub (via SSL, but GitHub's certificate should be fine), and then uses pip to install them.

Do you get the same error if you run this manually?

pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0.tar.gz

If it still doesn't work, you can always just download the model archive manually via the browser and then point pip to the archive on your local file system. To load the model, you'll have to set up a shortcut link manually, or simply import the model as a module and call its load() method:

import en_core_web_sm
nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

[sankethpb]

@ines I also tried to using pip install pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0.tar.gz and still get the same SSL Verification failed error.

The short links didn't work for me (or maybe I did it wrong) since I use Spacy with RASA Nlu, finally I modified pip's download.py to ignore SSL verification and now it installed successfully. It's a bad workaround though.

It would be great if it can be fixed.
Thanks in advance.

[honnibal]

Well, the service is GitHub, and the software that's installing it is pip --- so I think it's almost certain that the problem is in your system.

I think some Python versions were linked against an old version of OpenSSL, which didn't implement some SSL protocol correctly. I don't remember the details entirely. But I think if you update your Python and possibly your OpenSSL, it'll work correctly.

[AdeMiller]

I'm still seeing this issue. The following workaround fixed it from me

pip install  http://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz \
  --trusted-host github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com -v

You may have to change the trusted host depending on what and were you are downloading. The -v option will show the exact URL and hostname that requires a trust.

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