# unable to convert prodigy jsonl to spacy training json
**URL:** https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-convert-prodigy-jsonl-to-spacy-training-json/2459
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Tags:** usage, spacy
**Created:** [January 26, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-convert-prodigy-jsonl-to-spacy-training-json/2459 "2020-01-26T04:10:01Z")
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### Author:  [@benbot](https://support.prodi.gy/u/benbot)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-convert-prodigy-jsonl-to-spacy-training-json/2459/1 "2020-01-26T04:10:01Z")
I just got prodigy today to help with training a few spacy models, but I hit this dead end right away.
After labeling some `ner.manual` datasets and exporting to jsonl I'm unable to convert them using spacy's json format.
I keep getting this error after`python -m spacy convert ./annotations.jsonl . --converter jsonl -l en`
```python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
" __main__", mod_spec)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/Users/benbot/Documents/dev/projects/standup-ninja/service/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/spacy/ __main__.py", line 33, in
plac.call(commands[command], sys.argv[1:])
File "/Users/benbot/Documents/dev/projects/standup-ninja/service/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 367, in call
cmd, result = parser.consume(arglist)
File "/Users/benbot/Documents/dev/projects/standup-ninja/service/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 232, in consume
return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
File "/Users/benbot/Documents/dev/projects/standup-ninja/service/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/spacy/cli/convert.py", line 106, in convert
no_print=no_print,
File "/Users/benbot/Documents/dev/projects/standup-ninja/service/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/spacy/cli/converters/jsonl2json.py", line 24, in ner_jsonl2json
ents = record["spans"]
KeyError: 'spans'
```
I'm pretty new to spacy and prodigy, so if anyone can lend a hand I'd be eternally greatful.
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### Author:  [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-convert-prodigy-jsonl-to-spacy-training-json/2459/2 "2020-01-26T13:57:06Z")
Hi! If you're using the latest Prodigy, you shouldn't have to use spaCy's generic JSONL converter – you can use the [`data-to-spacy` recipe](https://prodi.gy/docs/recipes#data-to-spacy) 🙂 It'll also give you more detailed feedback if something goes wrong (e.g. if you're trying to convert a non-NER dataset to NER data etc.).
If it also tells you that one of your examples is missing `"spans"`, the most likely explanation is that there are some non-NER annotations in your dataset. Maybe you annotated something else before and then added the NER annotations to the same set? You can always use `db-out` to export the dataset and inspect it manually to see what's in there.
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### Author:  [@AK5](https://support.prodi.gy/u/AK5)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-convert-prodigy-jsonl-to-spacy-training-json/2459/3 "2020-06-25T19:16:30Z")
Hi,
I am trying to convert prodigy training set jsonl (from the output model directory after training) to spacy json using data-to-spacy recipe. It looks like this converter expects a SQLite object and not the corresponding \*.jsonl
✘ Can't find '/training.jsonl' in database 'SQLite
In this case, /training.jsonl' is the jsonl that prodigy ner train outputs in the final model directory. I would have used the SQLite dataset annotated with prodigy ner.manual, but I only have access to the training jsonl that sits in the main model directory. So, can I use only this jsonl and convert it to spacy json and how?
thanks
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### Author:  [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-convert-prodigy-jsonl-to-spacy-training-json/2459/4 "2020-06-26T08:28:43Z")
> [@AK5](#):
>
> but I only have access to the training jsonl that sits in the main model directory. So, can I use only this jsonl and convert it to spacy json and how?
Yes, as you can also see in the [recipe docs](https://prodi.gy/docs/recipes#data-to-spacy), the `data-to-spacy` recipe expects dataset names, not files.
If you only have a file, a quick workaround could be to just import it to a new dataset using `db-in`, and then converting that dataset to spaCy's format using `data-to-spacy`.