Slug Generator — URL-Friendly Slugs from Any Text, Free

About Slug Generator

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL, like the my-first-post at the end of a blog address. A good slug uses only lowercase letters, numbers, and a single separator character, with no spaces, accents, or punctuation that browsers would have to encode. Creating one by hand is error-prone, especially when the source title contains accented characters or symbols. This tool turns any text into a clean, URL-safe slug instantly, handling the tricky normalization steps for you.

The first thing it does is strip diacritics by decomposing accented characters to their plain ASCII equivalents, so e accent becomes e, u umlaut becomes u, and n tilde becomes n. Spaces and special characters are then collapsed into your chosen separator, and consecutive separators are merged so you never get a double dash. You can pick a hyphen, an underscore, or a dot as the separator, depending on whether you are building a URL path, a file name, or an identifier.

Two further controls shape the output. A Lowercase toggle, on by default, forces the result to lowercase, which is the convention for most URLs and keeps things consistent. An optional Max length field trims the slug to a set number of characters, useful when a CMS or platform caps slug length. The tool shows the resulting character count, and if the input contains no usable alphanumeric characters it tells you the result is empty rather than producing a string of separators.

Bloggers, content editors, developers, and SEO specialists use slugs constantly for posts, product pages, documentation anchors, and asset names. Because every conversion runs in your browser, you can paste draft titles freely without sending anything to a server.