Slug Generator
Turn any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly slug. The slug generator lowercases text, removes accents and punctuation, and joins words with hyphens or underscores so your links stay readable and SEO-friendly.
Whether you call it slug generator or url slug, this free tool handles it instantly in your browser.
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Example usage
Example input
My Awesome Blog Post! (2026 Edition)
Example output
my-awesome-blog-post-2026-edition
Batch Processing
Enter multiple inputs, one per line. Each line will be processed separately.
Why this tool?
Everything runs right in your browser — no uploads, no sign-up, no waiting. Your text never leaves your device.
Quick tips
- •Outputs update live as you type.
- •Use the sticky copy button to grab results quickly.
- •Bookmark this page for fast access.
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How it works
- Paste the title or phrase you want to turn into a slug.
- Accents and punctuation are removed and spaces become hyphens or underscores.
- Copy the clean slug for use in URLs, filenames, or permalinks.
Use cases
What makes a good URL slug
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page. The conventions are near-universal for good reasons: lowercase, because paths are case-sensitive on most servers and /About vs /about becoming two pages is a genuine duplicate-content problem; hyphens rather than underscores, because search engines have long treated the hyphen as a word separator while underscores can join words together; and no accents or punctuation, because those force percent-encoding that turns a clean URL into a wall of %C3%A9.
Length matters more than people expect. A slug should carry the topic, not the whole headline — three to six meaningful words is the usual sweet spot. Dropping filler words like "a", "the", and "of" makes a slug both shorter and clearer.
Slugs and stability
The most important rule about slugs is not how you write them but that you stop changing them. A published URL accumulates links, bookmarks, and search history; changing the slug breaks all of it unless you add a redirect. That is why experienced publishers leave dates and volatile words out of slugs — "/best-tools-2026" ages badly and tempts an edit a year later.
This generator normalizes accents (café becomes cafe), strips punctuation and symbols, collapses the gaps into single separators, and trims the ends so you never ship a slug with a trailing hyphen. If you need the opposite — safely encoding a value that must keep its original characters — our URL Encoder Decoder does percent-encoding instead.
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FAQ
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, usually lowercase words joined by hyphens, like "my-blog-post".
Does it handle accents and special characters?
Yes. Accented letters are converted to their basic form and punctuation and symbols are removed, leaving only letters, numbers, and separators.
Can I use underscores instead of hyphens?
Yes. Choose the underscore separator if you prefer underscores, though hyphens are generally recommended for SEO-friendly URLs.