What is the best way to get an approximate number of tokens for a piece of text?

• tiktoken

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  tiktoken is a fast BPE tokeniser for use with OpenAI's models.

  

I want to measure the approximate number of tokens in a piece of text to understand if I will need to modify it before passing it into the context of an OpenAI API call. Tiktoken can do this, but I'm not sure if it's overkill to use that library just for this simple task. I don't need to actually tokenize the text, I just need an approximate count (e.g. within like 1% of the text's actual token length for text that represents the visible text on a webpage).

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