# prodigy ner.manual: error: the following arguments are required: source

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337>\
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**Tags:** usage, solved\
**Created:** [February 19, 2022, 9:09am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337 "2022-02-19T09:09:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![dwisaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@dwisaji](https://support.prodi.gy/u/dwisaji)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 9:09am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/1 "2022-02-19T09:09:29Z")

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Hi I am very confused for first time using prodigy,I didnt understand how add my data.json file to read by prodigy and run it in local host. I have a file and the location is in `C:\Users\W I N D O W S\.prodigy\data.json` but when I using cmd and write  
`python -m prodigy ner.manual data ./data.json --label PERSON,ORG,LOC` I got an error of

```python
Using 3 label(s): PERSON, ORG, LOC
usage: prodigy ner.manual [-h] [-lo None] [-l None] [-pt None] [-e None] [-C] dataset spacy_model source
prodigy ner.manual: error: the following arguments are required: source

```

I already give the file location why it asking source? If I run `python -m prodigy stats` it will return

```python
Version 1.11.7
Location D:\Pyton 3.8\lib\site-packages\prodigy
Prodigy Home C:\Users\W I N D O W S\.prodigy
Platform Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
Python Version 3.8.10
Database Name SQLite
Database Id sqlite
Total Datasets 2
Total Sessions 5

```

In the doc I didnt understand about "the dataset name",is that my json file or the sqlite db server?How to add my json so I can annotate?

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**Author:** ![dwisaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@dwisaji](https://support.prodi.gy/u/dwisaji)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 10:31am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/2 "2022-02-19T10:31:33Z")

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I try to add and load a json file in my `C:\Users\W I N D O W S\.prodigy\data.json` but Always throw and error when I try cmd

```python
C:\Users\W I N D O W S>python -m prodigy textcat.manual sentiment ./data.json --loader json --label POS,NEG,NET

```

but it cannot starting the prodigy and throw

```python
Using 3 label(s): POS, NEG, NET

✘ Can't find file ./data.json
data.json

```

How to load data json in prodigy?I am confusing about database sqlite?does we need to upload it first?How to use prodigy?

Noted when I try `python -m prodigy stats` it give me a result

```python
Version 1.11.7
Location D:\Pyton 3.8\lib\site-packages\prodigy
Prodigy Home C:\Users\W I N D O W S\.prodigy
Platform Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
Python Version 3.8.10
Database Name SQLite
Database Id sqlite
Total Datasets 6
Total Sessions 14

```

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/3 "2022-02-19T11:54:43Z")

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Hi! I've merged your posts into one thread since they both seem to deal with similar questions 🙂

> [@dwisaji](#):
>
> but when I using cmd and write  
> `python -m prodigy ner.manual data ./data.json --label PERSON,ORG,LOC` I got an error of

It looks like you're just missing the model argument here. If you look at the documentation here, you can see the expected arguments, in order: [Built-in Recipes · Prodigy · An annotation tool for AI, Machine Learning & NLP](https://prodi.gy/docs/recipes#ner-manual)

The first argument is the name of the dataset to save the annotations to, in your case `data`. The second argument is the name or path to a spaCy model or `blank:en` to use a blank English tokenizer. And the third argument is the path to the file. So your command could look like this:

```python
python -m prodigy ner.manual data blank:en "C:\Users\W I N D O W S\.prodigy\data.json" --label PERSON,ORG,LOC

```

> [@dwisaji](#):
>
> `✘ Can't find file ./data.json`

This error indicates that the file can't be found or loaded from that path. The path you provided points at a `data.json` in the current working directory, so maybe double-check that you're in the correct directory? Alternatively, you can also provide an absoluie path like I've shown in the command above.

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**Author:** ![dwisaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@dwisaji](https://support.prodi.gy/u/dwisaji)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/4 "2022-02-19T12:05:20Z")

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in the doc of [text classification](https://prodi.gy/docs/text-classification) we didnt need to add model argument so based on your answer I update as

```python
C:\Users\W I N D O W S>python -m prodigy textcat.manual data "C:\Users\W I N D O W S\.prodigy\data.json" --label PERSON,ORG,LOC

```

but even I try to remove the `--loader json` it still give me an error. This super confusing

```python
Using 3 label(s): PERSON, ORG, LOC
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Pyton 3.8\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "D:\Pyton 3.8\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "D:\Pyton 3.8\lib\site-packages\prodigy\ __main__.py", line 61, in <module>
    controller = recipe(*args, use_plac=True)
  File "cython_src\prodigy\core.pyx", line 339, in prodigy.core.recipe.recipe_decorator.recipe_proxy
  File "cython_src\prodigy\core.pyx", line 366, in prodigy.core._components_to_ctrl
  File "cython_src\prodigy\core.pyx", line 125, in prodigy.core.Controller. __init__
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\feeds.pyx", line 104, in prodigy.components.feeds.Feed. __init__
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\feeds.pyx", line 150, in prodigy.components.feeds.Feed._init_stream
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\stream.pyx", line 107, in prodigy.components.stream.Stream. __init__
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\stream.pyx", line 58, in prodigy.components.stream.validate_stream
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\preprocess.pyx", line 347, in add_label_options
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\loaders.pyx", line 29, in _add_attrs
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\filters.pyx", line 46, in filter_duplicates
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\filters.pyx", line 18, in filter_empty
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\loaders.pyx", line 23, in _rehash_stream
  File "cython_src\prodigy\components\loaders.pyx", line 171, in JSON
  File "D:\Pyton 3.8\lib\site-packages\srsly\_json_api.py", line 39, in json_loads
    return ujson.loads(data)
ValueError: Expected object or value

```

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/5 "2022-02-19T12:07:33Z")

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Yes, in `textcat.manual` you don't need a model argument (because it doesn't rely on tokenization).

Based on the error, it looks like the JSON can't be loaded so maybe try and double-check it with a JSON validator to make sure it's valid?

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**Author:** ![dwisaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@dwisaji](https://support.prodi.gy/u/dwisaji)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/6 "2022-02-19T12:10:06Z")

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Yes its a valid json based on online validator and it came from pandas to

> **[data.json](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16lM1g5adL4YwzM5mFLfs7UZRj-huiLsu/view?usp=sharing)**
>
> Google Drive file.

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-ner-manual-error-the-following-arguments-are-required-source/5337/7 "2022-02-19T12:18:17Z")

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Hi it already solved. I try a few antoher orient in json pandas. It works on orient of records. I Think prodigy only read in json orient of records