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URL Slug Generator

Convert any page title into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug. The result updates live as you type and keeps only ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens.

How to use this tool

  1. 1

    Type or paste your page title or heading into the input box.

  2. 2

    Watch the slug update instantly below the field as you type — there is no Generate button.

  3. 3

    Click Copy to put the generated slug on your clipboard, ready to paste into your CMS or route.

  4. 4

    Edit the title if the slug was cut off at 80 characters or ends in a stray hyphen, then copy again.

What is a URL slug and how does this tool build one?

A URL slug is the human-readable tail of a web address, such as 'how-to-bake-bread' in /blog/how-to-bake-bread. A good slug is lowercase, uses hyphens between words, and avoids spaces or punctuation that browsers would percent-encode into noise like %20. Readable slugs help SEO by putting keywords in the URL and make links easier to share and trust. This tool transforms your text in a fixed sequence: it lowercases everything, decomposes accented characters and strips the accents (so 'café' becomes 'cafe'), removes every character that is not a-z, 0-9, a space, or a hyphen, trims surrounding whitespace, converts runs of spaces into single hyphens, collapses repeated hyphens, and finally caps the result at 80 characters. The accent-stripping step is followed by an ASCII-only filter, which means non-Latin scripts and emoji are deleted rather than transliterated: Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic, or Japanese input produces an empty or partial slug. For those languages you need a dedicated transliteration library. The tool is a lightweight helper for Latin-script titles, not a full Unicode slug engine.

Common use cases

  • Generate a clean post slug from a blog headline before publishing in your CMS.

  • Create stable URL paths for product or category pages in an e-commerce store.

  • Turn documentation section titles into anchor-friendly identifiers for deep links.

  • Produce predictable route segments when scaffolding pages in a static site generator.

  • Normalize accented names like 'Renée Dubois' into ASCII slugs such as 'renee-dubois'.

  • Quickly check whether a long title will be truncated by an 80-character URL limit.

Frequently asked questions

Does this tool send my text anywhere?▼
No. The slug is computed entirely in your browser with plain string operations and there are no network requests, so nothing you type is uploaded or stored on a server.
Why did my non-English title produce an empty slug?▼
After stripping accents, the tool keeps only a-z, 0-9, spaces, and hyphens. Non-Latin scripts such as Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic, or Japanese, and emoji, are removed entirely rather than transliterated. Use a transliteration library for those languages.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?▼
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but reads underscores as joining two words into one token. This tool only ever produces hyphens.
Is there a length limit on the slug?▼
Yes, the output is capped at 80 characters. The cut is made blindly at character 80, so a long title can be sliced mid-word or left with a trailing hyphen — shorten your title if that happens.
Does the tool remove hyphens at the start or end of my input?▼
Not always. It trims surrounding whitespace before hyphenating, but a leading or trailing hyphen already present in your text can survive. Input like '- hello -' yields '-hello-'; edit the title to remove edge hyphens.
Does this strip common stop words like 'the' or 'of'?▼
No. Every word that survives the character filter is kept. If you want shorter, keyword-focused slugs, remove filler words from the title yourself before copying.

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