Slug Generator
Type a title and get a clean, URL-ready slug as you type.
Options
Slug
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Processed on your device — nothing is sent anywhere.
How it works
- Type or paste your title, headline, or filename into the input box.
- The slug appears instantly below — lowercased, with accents converted and symbols removed.
- Open Options to switch between hyphen and underscore separators, then press Copy.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug?
- A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, such as “my-first-post” in example.com/blog/my-first-post. Good slugs use only lowercase letters, digits, and a single separator character, which keeps links readable, shareable, and friendly to search engines.
- How are accented and Turkish characters handled?
- Characters like é, ü, ñ, ç, ğ, ı, ö, and ş are transliterated to their plain ASCII equivalents (e, u, n, c, g, i, o, s) instead of being deleted. This keeps the slug meaningful for titles written in Turkish, German, French, Spanish, and other European languages.
- Should I use hyphens or underscores?
- Hyphens are the safer default: search engines treat them as word separators, so “blue-widgets” is read as two words. Underscores are still common in file names and some legacy systems, which is why the tool lets you switch between the two in Options.
- How long should a URL slug be?
- Three to five meaningful words is a good target. Drop filler words like “a”, “the”, and “of” when they add nothing, but keep the terms people would actually search for. Short slugs are easier to read, share, and type, and they survive title tweaks better than slugs that mirror the full headline.
- Does changing a slug on an existing page hurt SEO?
- Changing a slug changes the URL, so the old address stops working and any links or rankings pointing to it are lost unless you add a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. For new pages, pick a slug you are happy with up front; for existing pages, only change it with a redirect in place.
About this tool
This slug generator converts any title, headline, or filename into a clean, URL-safe slug the moment you type it. “10 Tips for Faster Cafés!” becomes “10-tips-for-faster-cafes” — lowercased, accents flattened to plain ASCII, punctuation stripped, and spaces collapsed into single separators. There is no button to press; the output updates live, and one click copies it.
The conversion runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. The text is normalized so accented characters map to their base letters — é to e, ü to u, and Turkish characters like ğ, ı, and ş to g, i, and s — then everything outside letters and digits is replaced with your chosen separator, and duplicate or trailing separators are removed. Because no server is involved, unpublished titles and internal document names never leave your device.
Slugs matter anywhere a name ends up in a URL or path: blog posts and news articles, product and category pages in e-commerce, documentation sections, campaign landing pages, and even Git branch names or image filenames that should stay web-safe. A consistent slug style across a site keeps links predictable, avoids ugly percent-encoded characters like %C3%A9 in shared URLs, and gives search engines readable words to index.
A few practical tips. Prefer hyphens for web URLs — search engines treat them as word boundaries, while underscores can glue words together. Keep slugs stable: once a page is published, its slug is its address, and renaming it without a redirect breaks every existing link. Strip dates from slugs unless the content is truly time-bound, so the URL stays accurate after updates. And when a title is long, slug the essence rather than the whole sentence — the best slugs read like a three-to-five-word summary of the page.