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Recursive Chunker
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.example.com/v1/chunk/recursive
{
  "text": "<string>",
  "start_index": 123,
  "end_index": 123,
  "token_count": 123
}
The Recursive Chunker splits text by trying multiple delimiters in order (paragraphs, sentences, words) to create natural, coherent chunks.

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Examples

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Text Input

from chonkie.cloud import RecursiveChunker

chunker = RecursiveChunker(
    chunk_size=512,
    recipe="markdown"
)

text = "Your text here..."
chunks = chunker.chunk(text)

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File Input

from chonkie.cloud import RecursiveChunker

chunker = RecursiveChunker(
    chunk_size=512,
    recipe="markdown"
)

# Chunk from file
with open("document.txt", "rb") as f:
    chunks = chunker.chunk(file=f)

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Request

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Parameters

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text
string | string[]
The text to chunk. Can be a single string or an array of strings for batch processing. Either text or file is required.
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file
file
File to chunk. Use multipart/form-data encoding. Either text or file is required.
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tokenizer
string
default:"gpt2"
Tokenizer to use for counting tokens.
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chunk_size
integer
default:"512"
Maximum number of tokens per chunk.
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min_characters_per_chunk
integer
default:"0"
The minimum number of characters a chunk should have.
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recipe
string
default:"default"
Recursive rules recipe to follow. See all recipes on our Hugging Face repo
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lang
string
default:"en"
Language of the document to chunk

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Response

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Returns

Array of Chunk objects, each containing:
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text
string
The chunk text content.
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start_index
integer
Starting character position in the original text.
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end_index
integer
Ending character position in the original text.
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token_count
integer
Number of tokens in the chunk.