title: Recursive Character Text Splitter node documentation
description: >-
Learn how to use the Recursive Character Text Splitter node in n8n. Follow
technical documentation to integrate Recursive Character Text Splitter node
into your workflows.
contentType:
- integration
- reference
priority: medium
Recursive Character Text Splitter node
The Recursive Character Text Splitter node splits document data recursively to keep all paragraphs, sentences then words together as long as possible.
On this page, you'll find the node parameters for the Recursive Character Text Splitter node, and links to more resources.
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Node parameters
- Chunk Size: Enter the number of characters in each chunk.
- Chunk Overlap: Enter how much overlap to have between chunks.
Templates and examples
[[ templatesWidget(page.title, 'recursive-character-text-splitter') ]]
Related resources
Refer to LangChain's text splitter documentation{:target=_blank .external-link} and LangChain's recursively split by character documentation{:target=_blank .external-link} for more information about the service.
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