How to add a Spacy model to a requirements.txt file?

Ok, so after some more Googling and hunting for a solution, I found this solution that worked:

I downloaded the tarball from the url that @tausif shared in his answer, to my local system.

Saved it in the directory which had my requirements.txt file.

Then I added this line to my requirements.txt file: ./en_core_web_sm-2.2.5.tar.gz

Proceeded with deploying to Heroku - it succeeded and the app works perfectly now.

Add this in your deployment step, if using docker add in Dockerfile

pip3 install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.5/en_core_web_sm-2.2.5.tar.gz --user

EDIT

Add

spacy>=2.2.0,<3.0.0 https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz#egg=en_core_web_sm

in requirements.txt

Spacy Doc Refer Downloading and requiring model dependencies section

For more detail on how to add github-source see this and follow YPCrumble answer