Corpora/stopwords not found when import nltk library

I trying to import the nltk package in python 2.7

  import nltk
stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')
print(stopwords[:10])

Running this gives me the following error:

LookupError:
**********************************************************************
Resource 'corpora/stopwords' not found.  Please use the NLTK
Downloader to obtain the resource:  >>> nltk.download()

So therefore I open my python termin and did the following:

import nltk
nltk.download()

Which gives me:

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However this does not seem to stop. And running it again still gives me the same error. Any thoughts where this goes wrong?

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You are currently trying to download every item in nltk data, so this can take long. You can try downloading only the stopwords that you need:

import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

Or from command line (thanks to Rafael Valero's answer):

python -m nltk.downloader stopwords

Reference:

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The some as mentioned here by Kurt Bourbaki but in the command line:

python -m nltk.downloader stopwords
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If your PC uses proxy for connectivity, then try this:

import nltk


nltk.set_proxy('http://proxy.example.com:3128', ('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'))
nltk.download('stopwords')
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You can do this in separately in console.
It will give you a result.

import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

I used jupyter console when I faced this problem.

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showing info https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nltk/nltk_data/gh-pages/index.xml

If you are running this command in a jupyter notebook, it opens another window titled 'NLTK Downloader'. Once you go in that window, you can select the topics you want to download and then click on download button to start downloading.

Until you close the NLTK Downloader window, the cell in the Jupyter keeps on running.

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if you get an SSL/Certificate error, run the following command.

This works by disabling SSL check!

import nltk
import ssl


try:
_create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
pass
else:
ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context


nltk.download()
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I know the comment is quite late, but if it helps:

Although the nltk.download('stopwords') will do the job, there might be times when it won't work due to proxy issues if your organization has blocked it.

I found this github link pretty handy, from where I can just pick up the list of words and integrate it manually in my project just as a workaround.

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Use GPU runtime, it will not give you any error.

The same code will work which you are using

import nltk
stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')
print(stopwords[:10])
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check what error you are getting --

python3 -m nltk.downloader stopwords

Error :

RuntimeWarning: 'nltk.downloader' found in sys.modules after import of package 'nltk', but prior to execution of 'nltk.downloader'; this may result in unpredictable behaviour




warn(RuntimeWarning(msg))
[nltk_data] Error loading stopwords: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed:
[nltk_data]     unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1123)>

Use the solution provided my @reshma2k

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Installed the ntlk and imported the stopwords

!pip3 install nltk
import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')

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