POST
/
v1
/
chunk
/
token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.chonkie.ai/v1/chunk/token \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form tokenizer=gpt2 \
  --form chunk_size=512 \
  --form chunk_overlap=0 \
  --form return_type=chunks
[
  {
    "text": "<string>",
    "start_index": 123,
    "end_index": 123,
    "token_count": 123
  }
]

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Your API Key from the Chonkie Cloud dashboard

Body

multipart/form-data
​
file
file

The file to chunk.

​
tokenizer
string
default:gpt2

Tokenizer to use. Can be a string identifier or a tokenizer instance.

​
chunk_size
integer
default:512

Maximum number of tokens per chunk.

​
chunk_overlap
integer
default:0

Number or percentage of overlapping tokens between chunks.

​
return_type
enum<string>
default:chunks

Whether to return chunks as Chunk objects or plain text strings.

Available options:
texts,
chunks

Response

200 - application/json
Successful Response: A list of `Chunk` objects.
​
text
string

The actual text content of the chunk.

​
start_index
integer

The starting character index of the chunk within the original input text.

​
end_index
integer

The ending character index (exclusive) of the chunk within the original input text.

​
token_count
integer

The number of tokens in this specific chunk, according to the tokenizer used.