diff --git a/spacy/en/download.py b/spacy/en/download.py
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+++ b/spacy/en/download.py
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+from os import path
+import os
+import tarfile
+import shutil
+import requests
+
+URL = 'https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/media.spacynlp.com/en.tgz'
+
+DEST_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'data', 'deps')
+
+def download_file(url):
+    local_filename = url.split('/')[-1]
+    # NOTE the stream=True parameter
+    r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
+    with open(local_filename, 'wb') as f:
+        for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024): 
+            if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunks
+                f.write(chunk)
+                f.flush()
+    return local_filename
+
+def main():
+    if not os.path.exists(DEST_DIR):
+        os.mkdir(DEST_DIR)
+    assert not path.exists(path.join(DEST_DIR, 'en'))
+
+
+    filename = download_file(URL)
+    t = tarfile.open(filename, mode=":gz")
+    t.extractall(DEST_DIR)
+    shutil.move(path.join(DEST_DIR, 'en', 'deps', 'model'), DEST_DIR)
+    shutil.move(path.join(DEST_DIR, 'en', 'deps', 'config.json'), DEST_DIR)
+    shutil.rmtree(path.join(DEST_DIR, 'en'))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()