Slug generator online turns any text into a properly formatted URL segment instantly. This free tool removes punctuation, replaces spaces with hyphens, and lowercases everything so your slugs are clean and compatible with any web platform. No signup or installation needed. Useful for content managers, developers, and bloggers publishing pages at scale.
The Text to Slug converter transforms any text into a URL-friendly slug by converting it to lowercase, replacing spaces with hyphens, and removing characters that are not valid in URLs. URL slugs are the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page: in the URL example.com/blog/my-first-post, the slug is "my-first-post". Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens as word separators, contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens, and accurately describe the page content. This tool handles the conversion automatically: "My First Blog Post!" becomes "my-first-blog-post". It also handles accented characters by converting them to their ASCII equivalents (e with accent becomes e, n with tilde becomes n), handles multiple consecutive spaces and hyphens, and removes leading and trailing hyphens.
Slug generation seems straightforward but has several edge cases that catch developers off guard. Accented characters from French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and other Latin-script languages appear frequently in titles and headings, and must be transliterated to their base ASCII form (a, e, i, o, u without accents) for maximum URL compatibility. Without transliteration, accented characters become percent-encoded in URLs (%C3%A9 for e with acute accent), which makes URLs long and unreadable. Consecutive hyphens should be collapsed to a single hyphen: "Fast -- and Free" should become "fast-and-free" not "fast---and-free". Leading and trailing hyphens should be stripped: a slug should not start or end with a hyphen. For SEO, the conventional wisdom is to use the target keyword phrase as the slug and keep it under 60 characters. Stop words (a, the, in, of, and) are sometimes stripped from slugs to keep them shorter, but this is optional and can make slugs less descriptive. For CMS platforms like WordPress, the slug is generated automatically from the post title using rules very similar to this tool. For custom implementations in Express, Django, or Rails, this tool shows you the expected output so you can verify your server-side slug generation matches. The tool also shows the slug length, which helps ensure it stays within recommended SEO limits.