diff --git a/requirements/python-extras-spacy b/requirements/python-extras-spacy
index dc4d715b..2296db4e 100644
--- a/requirements/python-extras-spacy
+++ b/requirements/python-extras-spacy
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
 # Extra dependancies for spacy detector
 # wheel is needed for spacy to do its funky model management, not sure why its not a dep of spacy directly
 wheel
-thinc==8.0.0rc2; python_version>='3.6' or python_version<'3.9'
-spacy-nightly[transformers]==3.0.0rc2; python_version>='3.6' or python_version<'3.9'
+
+thinc>=8.0.0rc3,<8.1.0; python_version>='3.6' or python_version<'3.9'
+spacy-nightly[transformers]==3.0.0rc3; python_version>='3.6' or python_version<'3.9'
+
+# thinc==8.0.0rc2; python_version>='3.6' or python_version<'3.9'
+# spacy-nightly[transformers]==3.0.0rc2; python_version>='3.6' or python_version<'3.9'
+
 # spacy-nightly[transformers]>=3.0.0rc1; python_version >= '3.6'
 # spacy-transformers>=1.0.0rc0
diff --git a/scrubadub/detectors/spacy.py b/scrubadub/detectors/spacy.py
index 49dd815c..8ddce454 100644
--- a/scrubadub/detectors/spacy.py
+++ b/scrubadub/detectors/spacy.py
@@ -139,7 +139,12 @@ def check_spacy_version() -> bool:
     @staticmethod
     def check_spacy_model(model) -> bool:
         """Ensure that the spaCy model is installed."""
-        spacy_info = spacy.info()
+        try:
+            spacy_info = spacy.info()
+        except TypeError:
+            # There is a forgotten default argument in spacy.info in version 3rc3, this try except should be removed
+            # in the future.
+            spacy_info = spacy.info(exclude=[])
         models = list(spacy_info.get('pipelines', spacy_info.get('models', None)).keys())
         if models is None:
             raise ValueError('Unable to detect spacy models.')