This document introduces spaCy, an open-source library for advanced natural language processing. It describes spaCy as the fastest NLP library in the world, with a simple API and ability to integrate with deep learning frameworks. It provides examples of how to quickly install spaCy and use it to perform part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition on sample text. It also introduces textacy, a library built on spaCy that enables higher-level NLP tasks and text analysis.