Heroku Buildpack: Python + NLTK

This buildpack is identical to the official python, but also installs any NLTK corpora/packages desired. Desired packages should be defined in .nltk_packages in the root of the repo. Packages will only be downloaded if both this file exists and nltk is installed among your dependencies.

The .nltk_packages file can contain either space-separated packages, or one package on each line.

See it in Action

Deploying a Python application couldn't be easier:

$ echo "punkt brown" > .nltk_packages
$ ls -a
.nltk_packages Procfile  requirements.txt  web.py

$ heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/megacool/heroku-buildpack-python-nltk

$ git push heroku master
...
-----> Python app detected
     $ pip install -r requirements.txt
-----> Downloading NLTK packages punkt brown
[nltk_data] Downloading package punkt to /app/nltk_data...
[nltk_data]   Unzipping tokenizers/punkt.zip.
[nltk_data] Downloading package brown to
[nltk_data]     /app/nltk_data...
[nltk_data]   Unzipping taggers/brown.zip.
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> (none)

A requirements.txt file must be present at the root of your application's repository.

You can also specify the latest production release of this buildpack for upcoming builds of an existing application:

$ heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/megacool/heroku-buildpack-python-nltk

Specify a Python Runtime

Specific versions of the Python runtime can be specified with a runtime.txt file:

$ cat runtime.txt
python-3.5.1

Runtime options include:

• python-2.7.11
• python-3.5.1
• pypy-5.0.1 (unsupported, experimental)

Other unsupported runtimes are available as well. Use at your own risk.