Count tokens

Simple tool that have one purpose - count tokens in a text file.

Requirements

This package is using tiktoken library for tokenization.

Installation

For usage from comman line install the package in isolated environement with pipx:

$ pipx install count-tokens

or install it in your current environment with pip.

Usage

Open terminal and run:

$ count-tokens document.txt

You should see something like this:

File: document.txt
Encoding: cl100k_base
Number of tokens: 67

if you want to see just the tokens count run:

$ count-tokens document.txt --quiet

and the output will be:

67

NOTE: tiktoken supports three encodings used by OpenAI models:

to use token-count with other than default cl100k_base encoding use the additional input argument -e or --encoding:

$ count-tokens document.txt -e r50k_base

Approximate number of tokens

In case you need the results a bit faster and you don't need the exact number of tokens you can use the --approx parameter with w to have approximation based on number of words or c to have approximation based on number of characters.

$ count-tokens document.txt --approx w

It is based on assumption that there is 4/3 (1 and 1/3) tokens per word and 4 characters per token.

## Programmatic usage

```python
from count_tokens import count_tokens_in_file

num_tokens = count_tokens_in_file("document.txt")

from count_tokens import count_tokens_in_string

num_tokens = count_tokens_in_string("This is a string.")

Related Projects

• tiktoken - tokenization library used by this package

Credits

Thanks to the authors of the tiktoken library for open sourcing their work.

License

MIT © Krystian Safjan.