URL Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug — strips special characters, handles accents, hyphen / underscore / dot separators.
About the URL Slug Generator
This URL slug generator turns any title, heading, or sentence into a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug — the kind that ranks well in Google and reads cleanly in a browser address bar. It strips punctuation, normalises accented characters (so 'Crème Brûlée' becomes 'creme-brulee'), collapses multiple spaces, and gives you the choice of hyphen, underscore, or dot as the separator. Everything happens in your browser; no titles are sent to a server, which matters when you're working on unpublished blog drafts or pre-launch product pages.
Common use cases
- Generate SEO-friendly slugs for blog posts and articles before publishing
- Convert product names into clean e-commerce URLs (Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix)
- Build CMS permalinks for WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, and Notion sites
- Turn marketing campaign titles into clean tracking URLs
- Generate filenames and folder paths from human-readable titles
- Build API endpoint paths from resource names
Why client-side?
Every byte you paste, type, or upload here is processed entirely inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, logged, or stored. That means it's safe to use this tool on production secrets, customer data, internal logs, and any input you would not paste into a hosted SaaS formatter.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a URL slug?
- A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page — for example, in https://example.com/blog/how-to-generate-slugs the slug is how-to-generate-slugs. Clean slugs improve SEO, are easier to share, and look more trustworthy in search results.
- How do I make a URL SEO-friendly?
- Convert your title to lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens (not underscores — Google treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as joiners), remove punctuation and special characters, and keep it under ~60 characters. This generator does all of that automatically.
- What's the difference between a slug and a URL?
- A URL is the full web address (https://example.com/blog/post-title). A slug is just the last segment that identifies the specific page (post-title). Slugs are also called URL paths, post slugs, or permalinks depending on the CMS you're using.
- Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?
- Always hyphens. Google explicitly treats hyphens as word separators (so my-blog-post is read as 'my blog post'), but treats underscores as joiners (so my_blog_post reads as one word). Hyphens are the SEO standard for URL slugs.
- How does this slug generator handle accented characters?
- It normalises Unicode and strips diacritics, so 'Café' becomes 'cafe', 'Naïve' becomes 'naive', 'Crème Brûlée' becomes 'creme-brulee'. This is critical for international content that needs ASCII-only URLs.
- Can I generate custom slugs with a different separator?
- Yes. Toggle between hyphen (default, recommended for SEO), underscore (for filenames and Python module paths), or dot (for some legacy URL schemes).
- Is this slug generator free and private?
- Yes — completely free, no sign-up, and runs entirely in your browser. Your titles and slugs are never sent to a server, which matters for unpublished drafts and pre-launch product pages.
- How long should a URL slug be?
- Aim for 3–6 words, under 60 characters. Long slugs get truncated in search results and look spammy. Short slugs (under 3 words) often lack the keywords that help with ranking. Trim filler words like 'a', 'the', 'and' from auto-generated slugs.