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Slug Generator

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About Slug Generator

The Slug Generator converts any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug: lowercase letters, hyphens instead of spaces, and special characters removed. Perfect for blog post URLs, product page paths, category slugs, and filenames.

Good slugs are short, descriptive, readable, and contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens. This tool enforces all those conventions automatically.

Accented characters like é, ñ, ü, and ç are converted to their ASCII equivalents (e, n, u, c) so slugs remain compatible with all URLs and file systems.

Everything runs locally in your browser. No account or sign-up required.

Practical Uses for Slug Generator

  • Turn a blog post title into a clean URL slug
  • Generate a product page slug from a product name
  • Create a filename-safe version of a document title
  • Convert a category name into a URL-friendly path segment
  • Generate a permalink from a forum thread title
  • Create a clean anchor ID from a heading for in-page links

How to Use Slug Generator

  1. Enter or paste your title or text.

  2. The URL slug is generated instantly below.

  3. Copy and paste the slug into your CMS, URL field, or filename.

Examples

Example — Blog post title
Input
Hello World! This is a Test Post
Output
hello-world-this-is-a-test-post
Example — Title with accents
Input
Héllo Wörld: Ñice Café
Output
hello-world-nice-cafe
Example — Long title
Input
10 Best Practices for Writing Clean JavaScript Code in 2024
Output
10-best-practices-for-writing-clean-javascript-code-in-2024
Example — Product page slug
Input
Men's Waterproof Hiking Boots - Size 10
Output
mens-waterproof-hiking-boots-size-10
Example — Forum thread permalink
Input
Best budget laptops for college students in 2026?
Output
best-budget-laptops-for-college-students-in-2026
Example — Heading anchor ID
Input
Getting Started with the API
Output
getting-started-with-the-api

Who Uses the Slug Generator Tool

  • Bloggers and content managers generate clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs from post and page titles.
  • Developers create URL-safe path segments or filenames from arbitrary user-entered titles.
  • SEO professionals standardize slug formatting across a site's URLs for consistency and readability.
  • E-commerce managers generate product page slugs from product names in bulk.
  • Community managers create clean permalink slugs from forum thread or discussion titles.

Comparisons

Slug Generator vs Case Converter (kebab-case)

Both tools can produce hyphenated, lowercase text, but the Slug Generator does more work specifically for URLs: it strips punctuation and symbols, transliterates accented characters to ASCII, and collapses multiple spaces or hyphens — all the cleanup a real URL slug needs.

Case Converter's kebab-case mode is a more general-purpose case transformation, useful for CSS class names or config keys, but it doesn't specifically handle URL-unsafe characters, emoji, or accents the way a dedicated slug generator does. For anything that needs to become part of a URL, use the Slug Generator.

Frequently Asked Questions

What characters are allowed in a URL slug?

URL slugs should contain only lowercase letters (a–z), digits (0–9), and hyphens (-). Spaces, special characters, accents, punctuation, and symbols must be removed or replaced. Underscores are technically valid but hyphens are preferred by Google and most CMSes.

Does it handle accented characters like é or ñ?

Yes — accented and special characters are transliterated to their closest ASCII equivalents rather than dropped. So 'café' becomes 'cafe', 'señor' becomes 'senor', and 'über' becomes 'uber'. This produces readable slugs for non-English titles.

Can I use underscores instead of hyphens?

Yes — toggle the separator option from hyphens to underscores. Underscores are common in Python package names, some database naming conventions, and certain CMS configurations. For SEO-optimised blog URLs, hyphens are generally recommended as Google treats them as word separators.

Why do hyphens matter for SEO?

Google's search algorithm reads hyphens as word separators, so a slug like 'best-running-shoes' is recognised as three distinct keywords. A URL like 'bestrunningshoes' (no separator) is treated as one unrecognised string. Hyphens directly improve keyword matching in URL-based ranking signals.

Does it remove stop words from the slug?

No — the tool converts your full input to slug format without removing any words. If you want a shorter, cleaner slug by removing articles and prepositions (a, an, the, of, in, etc.), edit the title before slugifying it.

What happens to emojis and symbols?

Emojis, currency symbols (€, $, £), mathematical symbols, and other non-alphabetic non-numeric characters are removed from the slug. If the symbol has clear alphabetic meaning (e.g. & → and), you can manually replace it in the title before slugifying.

Can I generate a slug for a product page?

Yes — paste the product name and the tool produces a clean, lowercase, hyphenated slug ready to use as the product page URL path.

Can I create a filename from a document title?

Yes — a generated slug is also safe to use as a filename, since it contains only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, avoiding characters that cause issues on different operating systems.

Can I generate an anchor ID for in-page navigation links?

Yes — slugify your heading text to get an ID like getting-started that you can use as an HTML id attribute and link to with #getting-started.