URL Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated slug for SEO friendly links.
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Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded anywhere.
How to use this tool
Type or paste a page title, heading, or product name into the box above. The slug updates live as you type. Pick a word separator (a hyphen is the safest choice for the web) and decide whether to force lowercase or keep the original case. When the slug looks right, press Copy slug and paste it straight into your CMS, blog post URL, or link. Press Clear to start over.
How it works
A slug is the readable part of a web address that identifies a single page,
like the best-apple-pie in example.com/recipes/best-apple-pie.
This SEO friendly URL converter first lowercases the text, then removes accent
marks so letters such as é become a plain e. Every group of
spaces, punctuation, or symbols is swapped for a single separator, any repeated
separators are collapsed into one, and leading or trailing separators are trimmed
away. The result is clean lowercase hyphen text that browsers, search engines,
and humans can all read easily.
A real example
Start with the messy title "Café Münchën: 10 Best Coffees!!! (2026)".
Lowercasing gives café münchën: 10 best coffees!!! (2026). Stripping
accents turns it into cafe munchen: 10 best coffees!!! (2026). Replacing
every special character and space with a hyphen, then collapsing the repeats and
trimming the ends, produces the final slug:
cafe-munchen-10-best-coffees-2026. That is a short, lowercase, hyphenated
link that trims special characters from the web URL and reads cleanly.
Common questions
What makes a slug SEO friendly?
A good slug is short, all lowercase, uses hyphens between words, contains your main keyword, and avoids special characters, spaces, and stop words you do not need. Search engines and people both find clean lowercase hyphen text easier to read and share.
Why use hyphens instead of underscores?
Search engines treat hyphens as word separators, so apple-pie is read as two words. Underscores are often treated as joining characters, so apple_pie can be read as one word. For URLs, hyphens are the recommended choice, though this converter supports both.
Does the tool send my text anywhere?
No. This URL slug generator runs entirely in your browser using plain JavaScript. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored on a server, so you can safely paste private titles or draft content.
What happens to accents and emoji?
Accented letters are normalized to their plain form, so ü becomes u. Emoji and other symbols are not letters or numbers, so they are treated as separators and removed, leaving only clean alphanumeric words.
Can I keep uppercase letters?
Yes. Set the letter case option to "Keep original" if you need a slug that preserves capitalization. For most web URLs, lowercase is the standard because some servers treat upper and lower case URLs as different pages.