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Slug Generator

Turn any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly slug for permalinks, paths, and filenames.

Turned into a slug live as you type. Nothing leaves your browser.

Options

How to create a URL slug

  1. Type your title

    Paste or type the title or phrase into the text box. The slug builds itself live underneath as you go.

  2. Choose a separator

    Pick Hyphen for URLs and permalinks, or Underscore if the slug is destined for a filename or database key.

  3. Keep or drop lowercase

    Lowercase is on by default for link-safe slugs. Turn it off if you need the original capitalisation preserved.

  4. Copy the slug

    Click Copy to clipboard and paste the finished slug into your CMS, router, or file dialog.

Why use this tool

Accents flattened to plain letters

Unicode normalisation strips diacritics before slugging, so café becomes cafe and señor becomes senor without manual edits.

Hyphen or underscore, your call

Hyphens are the convention for web URLs; underscores suit filenames and identifiers. One click switches between them.

No doubled or dangling separators

Consecutive punctuation collapses into a single separator, and separators at the start or end of the slug are trimmed off.

Lowercase by default, optional when not

The slug is lowercased for consistency out of the box, with a toggle to keep the source capitalisation intact.

Private, instant, free

Slugs are built on your device as you type. Nothing is uploaded, no account exists, and there is no limit on use.

About this tool

This slug generator turns a human-readable title into a string that is safe to put in a URL. It first decomposes accented characters and strips the accent marks, which converts letters like é and ñ to their plain ASCII equivalents. It then replaces every run of characters that is not a letter or digit (spaces, punctuation, symbols, emoji) with your chosen separator, trims any separators left clinging to the ends, and lowercases the result unless you switch that off. The output is only ever ASCII letters, digits, and your separator.

Slugs show up anywhere a name has to double as an address: blog post permalinks, product and category URLs, documentation anchors, image filenames before upload, and keys in a CMS. Consistent slugs matter for SEO too, since search engines read hyphenated words in a URL, and messy or duplicated separators make links look untrustworthy. Being able to preview the slug live while editing the title means you can rephrase until the URL reads well.

Your titles never leave the page; the whole transformation is local string processing. If you only need diacritics removed while keeping spaces and punctuation, use remove accents instead. For percent-encoding query strings or full URLs rather than building slugs, reach for the URL encoder, and case converter handles kebab-case identifiers that should keep their exact wording.

Frequently asked questions

What is a slug?
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a page in a human-readable way, like "my-blog-post" in example.com/blog/my-blog-post. Slugs use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens so they are clean, readable, and safe to put in a link.
How does the slug generator work?
Type or paste a title or phrase and the slug updates live as you type. Letters and numbers are kept, anything else (spaces, punctuation, symbols) is replaced with your chosen separator, and the result is lowercased by default. Click the copy button to copy it to your clipboard.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The slug generator runs entirely in your browser. Your text never leaves your device, never touches a server, and is not stored or logged.
Does it handle accents and symbols?
Yes. Accented characters like "café" are normalised to their plain equivalents ("cafe"), and any symbols or punctuation are stripped out and replaced with your separator, so you always get a clean, link-safe slug.

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