B4J Question Counting Tokens for OpenAI

Tim Chapman

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I need to be able to count tokens in a user's text submission (before it is submitted) to OpenAI API.

I have researched and found that TikToken is the best way to do that.
There are two TikToken libraries available at this time. One is in Python. The other in Node.js. Those are shown here:

What is the easiest way for me to get TikToken into B4J?

The closest I have seen is to compile a Node.js project into a jar file as shown here:

This looks like the correct JS code to work with:

Any better answers anyone can see for this? Doing the conversion using the instructions above is a bit out of my league.
 

jkhazraji

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Send the text directly to the OpenAI API although it will consume your quota.
 
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DonManfred

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Tim Chapman

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Download jar

You probably can use it with JavaObject
Hi Don,

I have delayed replying to you until I try to use the jar file you recommended. I apologize for not thanking you sooner. I have had to take a detour and work on software for my business. It is now giving me trouble which I can't figure out. I am posting in the B4J forum about it. When I get back to my OpenAI project, I will try to use the jar file you suggested and will let you know what I find.

I posted my question here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/combobox-not-showing-anything-when-i-click-on-it.163439/
 
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DonManfred

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until I try to use the jar file you recommended
you are in luck. i already wrote a small wrapper for it šŸ˜Ž

Download the jar from the link in #4 and put it into the additional libs folder

Basically you need to have an
B4X:
    Private tokkit As EncodingRegistry

and then use it
B4X:
    tokkit.Initialize("") ' Eventname is not used
    tokkit.SetModelEncoding("GPT_3_5_TURBO")
    
    Dim tokens As List = tokkit.encode("This is a Test!")
    Log(tokens)
    
    Dim decoded As String = tokkit.decode(tokens)
    Log($"Decoded ${decoded}"$)
 

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