By default, this will install the pipeline package into your site-packages directory. You can then use spacy. load to load it via its package name or import it explicitly as a module.

Where are spacy models downloaded to?

You can place the model data directory anywhere on your local file system. To use it with spaCy, simply assign it a name by creating a shortcut link for the data directory.

How do I know if spacy is installed?

You can also do python -m spacy info . If you're updating an existing installation, you might want to run python -m spacy validate , to check that the models you already have are compatible with the version you just installed.