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URL Slug Generator

Convert any title into a clean URL slug: lowercase, hyphenated, accents transliterated, punctuation stripped. Free online slug generator.

Input

Result

The result appears here as you type.

What this tool is for

A slug is the readable part of a URL after the domain. Good ones are short, lowercase, hyphenated and free of accents and punctuation, because those get percent-encoded into noise. Paste a title and get a slug that is safe to use in a URL and readable in a search result.

How to use it

  1. Paste the title or headline.
  2. Choose the separator (hyphen is the safe default for SEO) and whether to drop common stop words.
  3. Copy the slug into your CMS.

Frequently asked questions

Hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so my_blog_post reads as one token while my-blog-post reads as three words.

What happens to accented letters?

They are transliterated to their closest ASCII form, so "Crème Brûlée" becomes creme-brulee rather than a string of percent escapes.

Should I remove stop words?

Only when the slug gets long. Removing them shortens the URL, but a slug that reads oddly helps nobody. Keep it grammatical.