explosion/spaCy

💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

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Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 24, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
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Multitoken sets cannot be matched using quantifier operators Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#14032 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Github link in navbar is broken Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

explosion/spaCy#14030 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Regexes with Quardratic Time on Adversarial Inputs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#14020 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Explosion bot is broken since March Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#14011 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
German tokenizer splits gender-inclusive colon forms (Kund:innen) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

explosion/spaCy#14010 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Add cp314t (free-threaded Python 3.14) wheel support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

explosion/spaCy#14006 · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Expected 96 from C header, got 88 from PyObject when importing "en_core_sci_sm" version 0.5.4 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

explosion/spaCy#13998 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
`nlp.pipe(n_process>1)` crashes with [E018]/[E871] for any pipeline using floret-mode vectors (e.g. sv_core_news_lg) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

explosion/spaCy#13993 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
[E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13992 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Request: [spacy-transformers] add support for 'transformers' v5.3.0 to resolve vulnerability Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

explosion/spaCy#13989 · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Error: ValueError: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96 from C header, got 88 from PyObject Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13985 · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Installing spacy-curated-transformers causes thinc build failure Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

explosion/spaCy#13984 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2026
spacy throws exception when run from Terminal, fails to import as module Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

explosion/spaCy#13983 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Inconsistent lemmatization for some verbs (e.g. "scared" → "scar" instead of "scare") in English model Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13982 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
feature request: Add spacy support cupy>13 (CUDA 13) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

explosion/spaCy#13980 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Add czech package to language list in documentation Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

explosion/spaCy#13969 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 19, 2026
Package setuptools is required when using spaCy Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

explosion/spaCy#13967 · Opened Apr 24, 2026
`spacy download --url` is silently ignored or rejected — the custom URL flag never works Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

explosion/spaCy#13963 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Missing spacy-alignments for py3.14 while dependent spacy-transformers already has 3.14 wheels Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

explosion/spaCy#13960 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2026
en_core_web_hftrf-3.8.1 fails to load with spacy-transformers 1.4.0 (safetensors weights) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13958 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Performance/caching issue: tokenizer fails to reset has_special flag after encountering special span, effectively disabling caching Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

explosion/spaCy#13950 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Pipeline component `ConfigValidationError` regression in `3.8.13` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

explosion/spaCy#13944 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 27, 2026
RuntimeError: from_dlpack received an invalid capsule. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13938 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Japanese model missing url_match Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

explosion/spaCy#13928 · Opened Feb 28, 2026
docs: document speciesist bias in word vectors and NLP models Open

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explosion/spaCy#13926 · Opened Feb 25, 2026
en_core_web_trf does not run on GPU even when CUDA and GPU are detected Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

explosion/spaCy#13917 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Bug[?]: ImportError after upgrading to transformers==5.0.0 and huggingface-hub==1.3.4 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13915 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 27, 2026
[it] Regression: EditTreeLemmatizer produces wrong lemmas (spaCy 3.3+ worse than 3.2) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

explosion/spaCy#13913 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2026
Custom suggester based on POS tags: Shape mismatch for blis.gemm Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

explosion/spaCy#13887 · Opened Oct 28, 2025
sentence segmentation handling of guillemets Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

explosion/spaCy#13883 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Bug: vocab.length not decremented when memory_zone clears transient lexemes Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

explosion/spaCy#13882 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2025
displaycy.render yields ImportError: cannot import name 'display' from 'IPython.core.display' when in Jupyter Mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

explosion/spaCy#13871 · 4 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Sep 7, 2025
Section 6 of Course Chapter 3 (german version) doesn't accept correct answer Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

explosion/spaCy#13863 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2025
"whitelisting" lemmatised as "whiteliste" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

explosion/spaCy#13860 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2025
`test_registry_entries` fails with published spacy models Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

explosion/spaCy#13856 · Opened Jul 28, 2025
The Entity Ruler doesn't recognize a literal value as regex Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

explosion/spaCy#13855 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 25, 2025
`download` script requires pip Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13846 · 3 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2025
Trying to fine tune a transformer with spacy, getting a weird error despite copy-pasting from docs Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 52/100

explosion/spaCy#13831 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 5, 2025
SpanCat - Custom SpanCat NER model with whitespace issues Open

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explosion/spaCy#13830 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
arabic model not found Open

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explosion/spaCy#13817 · 2 comments · Opened May 11, 2025
Why is this tokenization weird? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

explosion/spaCy#13812 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2025
vscode doesn't like displacy.render(sentence1, style="dep") Open

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explosion/spaCy#13809 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2025
sample did not work Open

docs

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explosion/spaCy#13806 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Spacy Language components initialization extremely slow during cli training due to corpus train size. Open

feat / training feat / ux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

explosion/spaCy#13804 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2025
I can't open spaCy lessons Open

docs

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explosion/spaCy#13790 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2025
Infixes Update Not Applying Properly to Tokenizer Open

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explosion/spaCy#13785 · Opened Apr 2, 2025
Can't load model from config file: no [nlp] section found Open

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explosion/spaCy#13782 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Unable to use picamera2 after downloading Spacy on raspberry pi Open

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explosion/spaCy#13773 · Opened Mar 18, 2025
"from IPython.core.display import HTML, display" no more supported for latest IPython Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

explosion/spaCy#13763 · 4 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Mar 4, 2025
Empty coarse-grained POS tags for number in the large Romanian model Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

explosion/spaCy#13761 · Opened Feb 28, 2025

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