How to add a Spacy model to pyproject.toml

[cdolek]

I would like to have a spacy model installed via rye. Normally, we would do this and it would be added:

rye run python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

However, when you sync, rye uninstalls it.

Is there a way to specify this in pyproject.toml and keep it?

I tried adding the following with no luck:

[[tool.rye.sources]]
name="en_core_web_sm"
url="https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl"

Two other people asked about this here: #1004

[drothermel]

According to the Spacy docs:

To download a trained pipeline directly using pip, point pip install to the URL or local path of the wheel file or archive. Installing the wheel is usually more efficient.

# With external URL
pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz

# Using spacy info to get the external URL
pip install $(spacy info en_core_web_sm --url)

# With local file
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz

So I tried the following which seems to work:
rye add en_core_web_sm --url $(spacy info en_core_web_sm --url)