Free URL slug generator — turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug

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Accents are transliterated and punctuation removed. Generated entirely in your browser.

🔗 Slug Generator — Free Online Tool

Turn any title into a clean URL slug, free. A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a page (e.g. /my-first-post). This tool converts a title into a lowercase, hyphen-separated, ASCII-safe slug — transliterating accents and stripping unsafe characters — so your URLs stay readable and standards-compliant per RFC 3986.

🚀 Why use this Slug Generator tool?

It produces tidy, lowercase, hyphenated slugs with accents transliterated and unsafe characters removed, ready to drop straight into a URL. 100% free, no registration, and complete privacy — everything runs locally in your browser, so your data never touches a server.

Key Features

✍️Title → slug instantly

Type or paste a heading and get a clean slug as you go — spaces become hyphens and case is normalised.

🌍Accent transliteration

Characters like é, ñ, ü and ß are converted to ASCII equivalents so the slug is portable and safe in any URL.

🧹Safe by default

Punctuation and reserved characters are stripped, collapsing repeats so you never get double hyphens or trailing dashes.

🔒100% private

Everything runs in your browser; nothing you type is uploaded or stored.

Popular Use Cases

Content & SEO

  • Blog post & article URLs
  • Readable, keyword-rich paths
  • Consistent CMS slugs

Development

  • Generate IDs/keys from names
  • File and folder names
  • Anchor links

Data tidy-up

  • Normalise product names
  • Clean import keys
  • De-duplicate handles

What It Handles

Transforms

  • Lowercase
  • Spaces → hyphens
  • Accents → ASCII

Cleans

  • Strips punctuation
  • Collapses repeat hyphens
  • Trims leading/trailing dashes

Workflow

  • Live as-you-type
  • Copy result
  • Runs offline

Sources & References

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes a good URL slug?

Short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, and descriptive of the page. Stick to ASCII letters, numbers, and hyphens so it's readable and safe in every browser and system (RFC 3986 'unreserved' characters).

Why hyphens instead of underscores?

Search engines treat hyphens as word separators in URLs, so 'my-post' reads as two words while 'my_post' may read as one. Hyphens are the long-standing convention for slugs.

Does it handle accented or non-English text?

Yes. Accented Latin characters are transliterated to their closest ASCII form so the slug stays URL-safe and portable. Purely non-Latin scripts may be removed if they can't be transliterated.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. The slug is generated entirely in your browser; nothing you type leaves your device.

Can slugs contain numbers?

Yes. Numbers are kept, so titles like 'Top 10 Tips' become 'top-10-tips'. Only unsafe punctuation is removed.

🎓 Pro Tips

  • Tip 1: Keep slugs short and front-load the meaningful keywords; trim filler words like 'a', 'the', and 'of' for cleaner URLs.
  • Tip 2: Once a page is published, avoid changing its slug — if you must, set up a 301 redirect so links and rankings carry over.
  • Tip 3: Reference: RFC 3986 (URI syntax) defines which characters are safe in a path — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.