Truncate on word API

Truncates text to a maximum length on a word boundary and appends an ellipsis, never cutting mid-word and accounting for the ellipsis length. Answers 'how do I shorten this to N chars cleanly?', 'how do I add a … without breaking a word?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/text/truncate-words

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/text/truncate-words

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "text": "the quick brown fox jumps",
  "maxLength": 15
}

Example response

{
  "truncated": "the quick…",
  "wasTruncated": true,
  "length": 10,
  "originalLength": 25
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "text",
    "maxLength"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "the quick brown fox jumps"
      ]
    },
    "maxLength": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        15
      ]
    },
    "ellipsis": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "…"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}