URL Slug Generator — Turn Any Text into a Clean URL Slug
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Paste a headline, product name, or file title and get a tidy URL slug in return. The generator lowercases the text, swaps spaces and punctuation for a hyphen or underscore, strips accents, and transliterates Cyrillic to Latin — so 'Café münchen' becomes 'cafe-munchen'. Handy for blog post URLs, CMS slugs, and predictable file names.
How it works
- 1 Type or paste your text Enter the title or phrase you want to turn into a slug. The result updates as you type.
- 2 Pick a separator and case Choose a hyphen or underscore to join words, and decide whether to force everything to lowercase.
- 3 Copy the slug Click Copy to send the finished slug to your clipboard, then paste it into your CMS, code, or file name.
Your data stays private
All processing happens entirely in your browser. No files, text, or data are ever sent to our servers. You can disconnect from the internet and this tool will still work.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug?
- A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like 'url-slug-generator' in this page's address. Clean slugs are short, lowercase, use hyphens instead of spaces, and describe the content — which helps both readers and search engines.
- Should I use hyphens or underscores?
- Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator but reads an underscore as joining words together, so 'blue-widget' is indexed as two words while 'blue_widget' is read as one. Use underscores only where a system requires them, such as some file names or database keys.
- Does it handle accents and other languages?
- Yes. Accented Latin letters are reduced to their base form (é becomes e, ñ becomes n), and Cyrillic is transliterated to Latin (Привет becomes privet). Any character that has no Latin equivalent is replaced by the separator.
- Why did my emoji or symbols disappear?
- Slugs keep only letters and digits; everything else becomes a separator, and repeated separators collapse into one. Emoji, quotes, and punctuation are dropped because they cause encoding problems and broken links in URLs.
- How long should a slug be?
- Short enough to read at a glance — usually three to six words. Trim filler words like 'the' and 'a', keep the terms that matter for search, and drop the rest. A slug does not need to repeat the entire title.
- Is my text sent anywhere?
- No. The slug is built entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged, or stored, so it is safe to use with unpublished titles and internal names.