Spacy packages not installable via (uv) pip

[jcorrie]

Describe the bug

As discussed at astral-sh/uv#5478, installing spacy models via HF hub seems not to work due to the version specifier "any" being incompatible with the pip specification.

Reproduction

pip install uv
uv venv
.venv/Scripts/activate
uv pip install
uv pip install "en_core_web_sm @ https://huggingface.co/spacy/en_core_web_sm/resolve/main/en_core_web_sm-any-py3-none-any.whl"

Logs

error: The wheel filename "en_core_web_sm-any-py3-none-any.whl" has an invalid version: expected version to start with a number, but no leading ASCII digits were found

System info

- huggingface_hub version: 0.26.1
- Platform: Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0
- Python version: 3.12.2

[Wauplin]

Hi @jcorrie, thanks for reporting. I think this is an issue more related to https://github.com/explosion/spacy-huggingface-hub (if still maintained).

[jtauber]

is there a workaround involving downloading and renaming the wheel?