403 Server Error: Downloading en_core_web_sm fails due to "Compatibility table not found for Spacy v3.7.5"

[mkh1991]

How to reproduce the behaviour

Not sure if it's easily reproducible (it isn't even for me consistently), but during docker build, downloading the en_core_web_sm package fails with a 403 Server error, on occasion. With the --no-cache option during docker build, it still fails occasionally, and retrying the build often leads to a success, but not always. This has only started happening since sometime early this week or late last week, there's been no code change at all for the build or for requirements, and I've never faced this issue prior to now. spaCy claims it can't find the compatibility table, but clearly it can when it doesn't fail.

Failing command

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Error message

81.32 ✘ Server error (403)
81.32 Couldn't fetch compatibility table. Please find a package for your spaCy
81.32 installation (v3.7.5), and download it manually. For more details, see the
81.32 documentation: https://spacy.io/usage/models

Your Environment

• Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Python Version Used: 3.11
• spaCy Version Used: 3.7.5
• Environment Information: Conda environment within Docker, spaCy is downloaded with pip install -r requirements.txt

[Lixiyao-meow]

Same issue here