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Slug Generator

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Free URL Slug Generator

Turn titles into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs instantly in your browser. Bulk-convert one title per line, choose a hyphen or underscore separator, fold accents, and copy or download the results. No sign-up, nothing stored.

What is a URL slug?

A URL slug is the readable portion of a web address that names a specific page, typically generated from its title. Slugs use lowercase letters, numbers, and a separator such as a hyphen so they are easy to read, share, and index by search engines.

This generator folds accented characters to plain ASCII, replaces every run of non-alphanumeric characters with your chosen separator, and trims and collapses repeats — producing a tidy slug that is safe to drop straight into a URL.

Key Features

Clean URL Slugs

Turn any title into a tidy, lowercase, hyphenated slug that is safe to drop straight into a URL.

Bulk Conversion

Paste many titles, one per line, and get a matching slug for every line at once.

Accent Folding

Diacritics like é, ñ, and ü are normalised to plain ASCII so slugs stay readable everywhere.

Separator Choice

Pick a hyphen or underscore as the word separator to match your platform's convention.

Lowercase Toggle

Keep slugs lowercase for consistency, or turn it off when you need to preserve casing.

100% Client-Side

Every slug is generated in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server or stored.

How to Generate a Slug

1

Enter your titles

Type or paste one title per line into the input box — each line becomes its own slug.

2

Choose your options

Select a hyphen or underscore separator and decide whether the output should be lowercase.

3

Read the live output

Slugs update instantly as you type, with a single-line preview for the first title.

4

Copy or download

Copy every slug to your clipboard or download them as a .txt file with one click.

Common Use Cases

  • Blog & article URLs: Convert post titles into SEO-friendly permalinks that are easy to read and share.
  • E-commerce products: Generate consistent slugs for product and category pages across a large catalog.
  • Documentation anchors: Create stable heading IDs and anchor links for docs, wikis, and knowledge bases.
  • File and asset names: Produce safe, separator-clean names for exports, uploads, and static assets.
  • Bulk content migration: Slugify an entire list of legacy titles at once when moving content to a new CMS.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a URL slug?

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, usually derived from its title. For example, the title "Hello World! 2024" becomes the slug "hello-world-2024" — lowercase, with non-alphanumeric characters replaced by a separator.

Why are slugs important for SEO?

Clean, descriptive slugs help search engines and people understand what a page is about before they open it. Short, keyword-rich, lowercase slugs are easier to read, share, and index than long or cryptic URLs.

How does this tool handle accents and special characters?

Accented letters are normalised to their plain ASCII equivalents, so "Héllo" becomes "hello". Any run of non-alphanumeric characters is collapsed into a single separator, and leading or trailing separators are trimmed.

Can I convert many titles at once?

Yes. Each non-empty line in the input is treated as a separate title, and the tool outputs one slug per line. This makes it easy to bulk-convert a whole list of titles in a single step.

Should I use a hyphen or an underscore?

Hyphens are the recommended separator for web URLs because search engines treat them as word boundaries. Underscores are common for filenames and some code conventions. This tool lets you pick whichever your platform expects.

Is my text sent anywhere?

No. Every slug is generated entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. Nothing you type is transmitted to a server or stored.