How to install SpaCy (NLP Library) on Mac

In order to install SpaCy the open-source natural language processing (NLP) library for analyzing textual data follow the below steps.

Using conda

Open Terminal.
Type the commands,
```
% conda install -c conda-forge spacy
% python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
```
You can also create a new virtual environment and get spaCy installed in it by running the below commands before the above one.
```
conda create -n venv
conda activate venv
```

Using pip

% pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
% pip install -U spacy
% python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

If you are using the M1/M2 Apple Silicon ARM Chip based Mac's

pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U 'spacy[apple]'
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

You can add trained pipelines in other languages as well, below is the list available till April 2023

Catalan: ca_core_news_sm
Chinese: zh_core_web_sm
Croatian: hr_core_news_sm
Danish: da_core_news_sm
Dutch: nl_core_news_sm
English: en_core_web_sm
Finnish: fi_core_news_sm
French: fr_core_news_sm
German: de_core_news_sm
Greek: el_core_news_sm
Italian: it_core_news_sm
Japanese: ja_core_news_sm
Korean: ko_core_news_sm
Lithuanian: lt_core_news_sm
Macedonian: mk_core_news_sm
Multi-language: xx_ent_wiki_sm
Norwegian Bokmål: nb_core_news_sm
Polish: pl_core_news_sm
Portuguese: pt_core_news_sm
Romanian: ro_core_news_sm
Russian: ru_core_news_sm
Spanish: es_core_news_sm
Swedish: sv_core_news_sm
Ukrainian: uk_core_news_sm

The official installation page: https://spacy.io/usage

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