🔗 Slug Generator

Convert text into SEO-friendly URL slugs instantly. Perfect for creating clean, readable URLs for blog posts, product pages, and web content. Automatically handles special characters, spaces, and formatting.

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📌 Generated Slug:

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📄 URL Preview:

https://example.com/your-slug-here

💡 How it works:

Converts text to lowercase letters and numbers only
Replaces spaces with hyphens (-)
Removes special characters and punctuation
Trims leading and trailing hyphens
Creates URL-safe, SEO-friendly slugs
Results update in real-time as you type

📝 Examples:

Input:

My Amazing Blog Post Title!

Generated Slug:

my-amazing-blog-post-title

Input:

How to Build a REST API (Best Practices)

Generated Slug:

how-to-build-a-rest-api-best-practices

Input:

Product: iPhone 15 Pro Max - $1,299

Generated Slug:

product-iphone-15-pro-max-1299

Statistics (Example):

Original Length: 32
Slug Length: 25
Characters Removed: 7

📚 Use Cases:

Generate SEO-friendly URLs for blog posts
Create clean product page URLs
Format category and tag URLs
Create readable custom URLs for content
Generate URL-safe identifiers for web applications
Standardize URL formatting across websites
Improve URL readability for users and search engines

✅ SEO Benefits: URL slugs that contain keywords and are hyphen-separated are beneficial for SEO. Search engines can easily read and understand URL structure, and users can see the page topic from the URL.

Three steps, and what they do to accents

The whole slug is built by two substitutions after lowercasing. Every unbroken run of characters that is not a-z or 0-9 turns into a single hyphen, then the hyphens at each end are shaved off:

text.toLowerCase()
    .replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, "-")
    .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "")

Accented letters are not transliterated - they are stripped like punctuation. Crème Brûlée: The Best Recipe! comes out as cr-me-br-l-e-the-best-recipe, not creme-brulee-.... Type the plain-ASCII spelling yourself and you get the slug you wanted. Text in Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic or Chinese has no a-z characters at all, so it reduces to nothing and the output reads "(Empty)".

Writing a slug worth publishing

Hyphens, never underscores. Google reads a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so rest_api can be indexed as one word. This tool converts underscores to hyphens for you.
Short beats complete. Three to five meaningful words is plenty; drop a, the and how to if the slug is running past 60 characters or so.
Everything else collapses cleanly. Rock & Roll gives rock-roll because the spaces and ampersand are one run, and $1,299 keeps its digits as 1299.
Chars Removed is the difference in length, so it counts the characters that collapsed into hyphens as well as those deleted outright.

Decide the slug before you publish. Changing it later breaks every existing link unless you add a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one.

Frequently asked questions

What is a URL slug?

The readable part of an address that identifies one page - in example.com/blog/how-to-bake-bread the slug is how-to-bake-bread. It tells both readers and search engines what the page is about before they open it.

Should a slug use hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens. Google has said so since 2007: hyphens separate words, underscores glue them together. Every major CMS defaults to hyphens for the same reason.

How do I make a slug from a title with accents?

Retype the accented letters as their plain equivalents - e as e, o as o - before pasting. This tool drops characters outside a-z and 0-9 rather than converting them, so ñ becomes a hyphen instead of an n.