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

1. Open Terminal.
2. 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