diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/README.md b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/README.md
index cdae5ff0d308..8f8e6200ec7c 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/README.md
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/README.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Using fastText instead of glove is fairly straightforward, as the pretrained emb
 
 Download the 'Simple English' pretrained wiki word vectors (text) from the fastText
 [site](https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/pretrained-vectors.html) and place them in the
-`data/fasttext` directory.
+`data/fasttext` directory. Alternatively just run `./get_fasttext_data.sh`.
 
 Then you can run training on a subset of examples through the repl using:
 ```
diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/get_fasttext_data.sh b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/get_fasttext_data.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..2bfe96659402
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/cnn-text-classification/get_fasttext_data.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
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+# under the License.
+
+set -evx
+
+mkdir -p data/fasttext
+cd data/fasttext
+wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/vectors-wiki/wiki.simple.vec