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URL Slug Generator online

Convert text to clean URL-friendly slugs for permalinks and SEO

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How to Use the URL Slug Generator

  1. Paste your title or sentence into the input field.
  2. The slug appears live below — no Run button needed.
  3. Toggle "Remove stop-words" if your slugs are getting long.
  4. Copy the slug straight into your CMS, file name or S3 key.

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL — the bit between the trailing slash and the query string. Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphen-separated and contain only ASCII letters and digits, so they survive being shared in chat, copied into terminals, and stored as filenames or S3 keys.

How the URL Slug Generator Works

This generator does the four things every slug needs: Unicode-folds accented characters to plain ASCII, lowercases everything, replaces all non-alphanumeric runs with a single hyphen, and trims leading/trailing hyphens. Optional stop-word removal cleans up titles like "How to Use the Slug Generator" into a tighter "use-slug-generator".

Frequently Asked Questions

Why use hyphens and not underscores?

Google has explicitly stated that it treats hyphens as word separators in URLs, while underscores are treated as joiners. "free-online-tool" parses as three words, "free_online_tool" parses as one — hyphens are better for SEO.

How are accented characters handled?

They are normalised with Unicode NFD decomposition, then the combining diacritical marks are stripped — so "résumé" becomes "resume", "naïve" becomes "naive". Non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Greek, CJK) are kept as-is unless you transliterate them upstream.

Should I remove stop-words from my slugs?

It depends. Shorter slugs are cleaner and Google ignores tiny stop-words anyway. But removing too aggressively can break readability — "cat-vs-dog" reads better than "cat-dog". Use the toggle when slugs are getting unwieldy.

Is the output safe to use directly in a URL?

Yes — only the unreserved URL characters [a-z0-9-] are kept. There's no need to URL-encode the result, and it round-trips cleanly through HTTP, S3 keys, file systems and most CMSes.

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