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Turn any title into a clean URL slug
Turn a headline or title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug, with accents, symbols, and stop-words handled.
For the best results: Accents and symbols are transliterated automatically (café → cafe). Turn on stop-word removal for shorter slugs, but keep slugs stable once a page is published.
Runs entirely in your browser, what you paste is never uploaded, logged, or stored.
What is URL Slug Generator?
URL Slug Generator is a free online utility that turns a title or headline into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug with accents and symbols handled. The conversion runs as plain JavaScript in this tab, so whatever you paste, including anything sensitive, never leaves your device. There is no server call involved at all, no account to make, and no cap on how often you use it.
- ✦Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is ever uploaded
- ✦No account, no sign-up, and no data leaves your device
- ✦Works offline once the page has loaded
See it in action
A blog title with an accent, a curly apostrophe and an exclamation mark needs a clean URL.
What you type
"10 Café-Style Récipes You'll Actually Cook!"
What you get
10-cafe-style-recipes-you-ll-actually-cook, accents folded to plain letters, punctuation dropped, everything lowercased and hyphenated.
Tip: Diacritics are transliterated rather than deleted, so café becomes cafe instead of caf. Tick the stop-word option to drop filler words like "a" and "the" when you want shorter slugs for SEO.
Use cases
What people use it for
Turn a working headline into a short, keyword-led slug before a blog post goes live.
Standardize hundreds of product names full of symbols and ampersands into consistent store URLs.
Convert accented French or German titles into ASCII-safe slugs that survive sharing and copy-paste.
Who uses URL Slug Generator?
Independent bloggers
settle a clean, keyword-focused slug for every post before publishing instead of accepting the CMS default
Ecommerce managers
normalize product names full of symbols, sizes and brand punctuation into consistent, shareable category and product URLs
Developers migrating content
generate predictable slugs in bulk when moving articles between systems that slug titles differently
How it works
- 1Vary step 1 by tool shape using the existing FORM_TOOL_IDS set in app/(public)/[category]/[tool]/page.tsx. Form tools get "Set the options for what you need." and text tools get "Paste your text into the box." Where a tool's config makes it easy, name its own inputs instead. Steps 2 and 3 stay shared as they are.
- 2Your browser computes the result instantly. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
- 3Copy the output; the tool keeps working even offline.
Tips for the best results
- Put the primary keyword near the front of the slug, where it is hardest to truncate away.
- Leave dates out of slugs so the URL stays accurate when you update the content next year.
- Keep the slug shorter than the headline. It should summarize, not duplicate.
- Never point two pages at the same slug; most systems will silently rename one of them.
- Decide the slug before publishing, because changing it later means setting up a redirect.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Why are slugs lowercase with hyphens instead of spaces?
Spaces are not valid in URLs, browsers convert them to %20, which looks broken and breaks when shared. Hyphens are the accepted separator because search engines read a-clean-hyphenated-slug as individual words, whereas underscores were historically treated as joining characters. Lowercase avoids duplicate-content headaches, since many servers treat /About and /about as two different pages.
What happens to accents and special characters?
Accented letters are transliterated to their plain equivalents (é becomes e, ü becomes u) so the slug stays readable and safe in every context. Symbols that have no place in a URL, like ampersands, question marks and apostrophes, are dropped or replaced, and runs of leftover punctuation collapse into a single hyphen rather than a messy chain of them.
How long should a slug be?
Short enough to read at a glance. Three to five meaningful words is a sensible target, keep the primary keyword, drop filler like a, the and how, and resist restating the entire headline. A concise slug is easier to share, less likely to be truncated in messages, and tells both readers and search engines exactly what the page covers.
Can I change the slug on a page that is already published?
You can, but never silently. The old address is what other sites, emails and bookmarks point at, so set up a 301 redirect from the old slug to the new one or every existing link breaks and any accumulated ranking signals drain away. Far better to settle the slug before publishing, which is exactly the moment to use this generator.
Are the titles I type kept anywhere?
They never leave the page. Conversion is a character-by-character transformation performed by your browser, with nothing transmitted, logged or saved, so unreleased product names, embargoed announcements and draft headlines are safe to slug months before launch. Once loaded, the generator keeps working with no connection at all.
What is a slug in a URL?
The slug is the final human-readable section of a web address that identifies one page, in example.com/blog/pricing-guide, the slug is pricing-guide. It usually derives from the page title, stripped to lowercase words joined by hyphens, and a good one tells you what the page is about before you click.
What characters are allowed in a URL slug?
Stick to lowercase letters a to z, digits and hyphens. Anything else (spaces, accented letters, ampersands, apostrophes) either needs percent-encoding or risks breaking when the address is pasted into chat apps and emails. That is why slug generators strip titles down to that minimal safe set automatically.
Is this an AI tool?
No, and that is deliberate. Slug generation follows fixed transliteration and replacement rules, so the same title always produces the same slug, instantly, offline and without your headline going anywhere. Predictability is exactly what you want for URLs; a system that improvised would be a liability.
Are there any usage limits?
None. Everything is generated locally in your browser, so there is no server cost, no metering, and no daily cap, use it as many times as you like, completely free.
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