Slug Generator
Slug Generator
Convert a title into a clean URL slug.
Runs entirely in your browser
How to use this tool
- Fill in the inputs.
- Read the result.
- Copy or download as needed.
About the Slug Generator
The Slug Generator converts any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly "slug" — lowercase, hyphen-separated text with special characters and accents stripped out, exactly the kind of format search engines and content management systems expect for a web page address. Type a title and the corresponding slug appears instantly.
A good slug makes a URL more readable, more shareable, and generally friendlier for search engine optimization, since search engines and users alike can often infer what a page is about just by reading the words in its URL.
The conversion process runs through several steps: first, accented characters are normalized and stripped down to their basic Latin equivalents (so "café" becomes "cafe"), then every letter is converted to lowercase. Any character that is not a lowercase letter, a number, or a space is removed entirely, which strips out punctuation, symbols, and special characters that would not be valid or advisable in a URL.
Finally, the tool trims leading and trailing whitespace, replaces every remaining space (or run of spaces) with a single hyphen, and collapses any consecutive hyphens down to one, giving you a clean, standard slug format like "my-blog-post-title" from an input like "My Blog Post: Title!".
Common use cases
- Creating SEO-friendly URLs for blog posts, product pages, or articles.
- Generating consistent, clean file names or identifiers from titles or descriptions.
- Converting a list of product or article titles into a batch of ready-to-use URL slugs.
- Cleaning up messy titles containing special characters, accents, or inconsistent spacing before publishing.
- Quickly checking what a content management system's auto-generated slug would likely look like for a given title.
Tips and best practices
- Keep slugs reasonably short and focused on the page's main keywords for the best readability and SEO value.
- Avoid changing a URL slug after a page has already been published and indexed by search engines, since that can break existing links unless you set up a proper redirect.
- This tool strips accented characters down to their plain Latin equivalents, which is standard practice for URL slugs across most languages and platforms.
- If your title includes numbers, they are preserved in the slug exactly as typed, since numbers are valid slug characters.
