Slug Generator
Create a clean URL slug from a title or phrase.
Tool code processes selected files and entered content in your browser and does not submit them to a TOOLGRID processing endpoint. TOOLGRID measures tool usage, not the content you enter.
- No TOOLGRID input upload
- No account
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What this tool does
Convert text into a lowercase, hyphenated slug in the browser.
Slug Generator creates URL-ready slugs from messy text or working titles.
It removes punctuation, strips accents where possible, compresses separators, and keeps output clean.
Use it for blog URLs, documentation anchors, product page paths, changelog entries, and file names that need predictable lowercase hyphenation.
All conversion happens in your browser. Pair it with our Case Converter when you need code identifiers from the same title, or URL Encoder when you need percent-encoding instead of slug cleanup.
Where this tool earns its place
Paste an article title and copy a lowercase slug that is readable in search results and safe to place in a URL path.
Turn a product feature name, release note heading, or docs section title into a consistent path segment without hand-editing punctuation.
Use slugs for exported files, screenshots, and notes when you want stable names that work across macOS, Windows, Linux, and URLs.
What to check before relying on the result
- Performance and maximum practical input size depend on browser memory, device speed, and the structure of the input.
- Review the generated result before replacing or publishing an original file.
Open a nearby browser tool when you need to validate, convert, or reuse the result.
How to use
01Use Cases
Paste an article title and copy a lowercase slug that is readable in search results and safe to place in a URL path.
Turn a product feature name, release note heading, or docs section title into a consistent path segment without hand-editing punctuation.
Use slugs for exported files, screenshots, and notes when you want stable names that work across macOS, Windows, Linux, and URLs.
CMS and markdown heading anchors often follow slug-like rules. Generate the candidate slug first so links remain predictable.
Tips & Tricks
- 01Keep slugs short enough to scan
A good slug usually keeps the main nouns and drops filler words. Shorter slugs are easier to read, share, and inspect in analytics reports.
- 02Do not use slugs for private identifiers
Slugs are designed to be readable, not secret. If you need an unguessable identifier, use the UUID Generator or Password Generator instead.
- 03Hyphens are the safest separator
Hyphens are readable in URLs and are the convention most search engines and CMS platforms expect. Avoid underscores for public page URLs unless your system already standardizes on them.
FAQ
02Does it keep uppercase letters?
No — slugs are always output in lowercase because URLs are case-sensitive and mixing cases creates duplicate-page problems for SEO. For example, /Blog and /blog are treated as two different URLs by search engines. The converter also strips accents (é → e, ü → u), replaces spaces and special characters with hyphens, and collapses multiple consecutive hyphens into one.
Are special characters removed?
Yes. Punctuation, symbols, and non-ASCII characters are stripped or converted. Accented letters are transliterated to their ASCII equivalents when possible (ñ → n, ö → o). Characters with no ASCII equivalent are dropped entirely. The result is a clean, URL-safe string containing only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens.
Does it handle multiple spaces?
Yes. Consecutive spaces and hyphens are collapsed into a single hyphen.