How to manually download a nltk corpus?

  1. Go to http://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/ and download whichever data file you want
  2. Now in a Python shell check the value of nltk.data.path
  3. Choose one of the path that exists on your machine, and unzip the data files into the corpora subdirectory inside.
  4. Now you can import the data from nltk.corpus import stopwords