Slug Generator
Create SEO-friendly URL slugs from any text.
What is a URL Slug?
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable format.
Example: example.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post
📘 How It Works
Lowercase Conversion
All text is converted to lowercase since URLs are case-insensitive and lowercase is the convention. This ensures consistency across all links.
Diacritic Removal
Accented characters (é, ñ, ü) are normalized using NFD (Canonical Decomposition) then stripped of combining marks. This converts 'café' to 'cafe' for ASCII compatibility.
Special Character Stripping
Punctuation and special characters (!@#$%^&*) are removed as they're not URL-safe. Only letters, numbers, and spaces remain at this stage.
Separator Replacement
Spaces are replaced with your chosen separator (dash, underscore, or nothing). Multiple consecutive spaces become a single separator to keep slugs clean.
Final Cleanup
Leading/trailing whitespace is trimmed and any consecutive separators are collapsed to single ones. The result is a clean, URL-ready slug.
💡 Common Use Cases
Blog Post URLs
Convert article titles to SEO-friendly URLs. 'How to Cook Pasta!' becomes 'how-to-cook-pasta' for clean, readable links.
E-commerce Product Pages
Generate product page URLs from product names. Clean slugs improve SEO and user experience for online stores.
CMS Content Management
WordPress, Drupal, and other CMS platforms use slugs for page URLs. Pre-generate slugs for content imports.
API Endpoint Design
Create consistent, readable API endpoints from resource names. Slugs make REST APIs more intuitive.
File Naming
Generate filesystem-safe names for uploads and downloads. Avoid spaces and special characters that cause issues.
Social Sharing Links
Create memorable, shareable links for campaigns. Clean URLs are easier to share and remember.