include ../../_includes/_mixins

p
    |  After training your model, you'll usually want to save its state, and load
    |  it back later. You can do this with the
    |  #[+api("language#to_disk") #[code Language.to_disk()]]
    |  method:

+code.
    nlp.to_disk('/home/me/data/en_example_model')

p
    |  The directory will be created if it doesn't exist, and the whole pipeline
    |  will be written out. To make the model more convenient to deploy, we
    |  recommend wrapping it as a Python package.

+h(2, "generating") Generating a model package

+infobox("Important note")
    |  The model packages are #[strong not suitable] for the public
    |  #[+a("https://pypi.python.org") pypi.python.org] directory, which is not
    |  designed for binary data and files over 50 MB. However, if your company
    |  is running an internal installation of pypi, publishing your models on
    |  there can be a convenient solution to share them with your team.

p
    |  spaCy comes with a handy CLI command that will create all required files,
    |  and walk you through generating the meta data. You can also create the
    |  meta.json manually and place it in the model data directory, or supply a
    |  path to it using the #[code --meta] flag. For more info on this, see the
    |  #[+a("/docs/api/cli#package") #[code package]] command documentation.

+aside-code("meta.json", "json").
    {
        "name": "example_model",
        "lang": "en",
        "version": "1.0.0",
        "spacy_version": ">=1.7.0,<2.0.0",
        "description": "Example model for spaCy",
        "author": "You",
        "email": "you@example.com",
        "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0"
    }

+code(false, "bash").
    python -m spacy package /home/me/data/en_example_model /home/me/my_models

p This command will create a model package directory that should look like this:

+code("Directory structure", "yaml").
    └── /
        ├── MANIFEST.in                   # to include meta.json
        ├── meta.json                     # model meta data
        ├── setup.py                      # setup file for pip installation
        └── en_example_model              # model directory
            ├── __init__.py               # init for pip installation
            └── en_example_model-1.0.0    # model data

p
    |  You can also find templates for all files in our
    |  #[+a(gh("spacy-dev-resouces", "templates/model")) spaCy dev resources].
    |  If you're creating the package manually, keep in mind that the directories
    |  need to be named according to the naming conventions of
    |  #[code [language]_[name]] and #[code [language]_[name]-[version]]. The
    |  #[code lang] setting in the meta.json is also used to create the
    |  respective #[code Language] class in spaCy, which will later be returned
    |  by the model's #[code load()] method.

+h(2, "building") Building a model package

p
    |  To build the package, run the following command from within the
    |  directory. This will create a #[code .tar.gz] archive in a directory
    |  #[code /dist].

+code(false, "bash").
    python setup.py sdist

p
    |  For more information on building Python packages, see the
    |  #[+a("https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/") Python Setuptools documentation].


+h(2, "loading") Loading a model package

p
    |  Model packages can be installed by pointing pip to the model's
    |  #[code .tar.gz] archive:

+code(false, "bash").
    pip install /path/to/en_example_model-1.0.0.tar.gz

p You'll then be able to load the model as follows:

+code.
    import en_example_model
    nlp = en_example_model.load()

p
    |  To load the model via #[code spacy.load()], you can also
    |  create a #[+a("/docs/usage/models#usage") shortcut link] that maps the
    |  package name to a custom model name of your choice:

+code(false, "bash").
    python -m spacy link en_example_model example

+code.
    import spacy
    nlp = spacy.load('example')