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Slug / URL Generator

Type a title and get a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug ready to use in a URL.

How to use the Slug / URL Generator

  1. Type or paste your title, heading, or sentence into the input box.
  2. Choose whether you want words separated by hyphens or underscores.
  3. The clean, URL-safe slug is generated instantly as you type.
  4. Copy it directly into your CMS, file name, or URL path.

About the Slug / URL Generator

A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in readable form — the section after the domain, like the "my-first-blog-post" in example.com/blog/my-first-blog-post. Search engines and readers both benefit from slugs being short, lowercase, and free of spaces or special characters, since spaces get encoded as ugly "%20" sequences and mixed case creates unnecessary inconsistency between links.

This tool converts any title, heading, or arbitrary sentence into that clean format automatically. It lowercases every character, strips punctuation like colons, apostrophes, and exclamation points, and replaces spaces with your choice of hyphens or underscores. Hyphens are the more common convention and the one generally recommended for SEO, since search engines treat hyphens as word separators, while underscores are sometimes preferred for file names or specific coding conventions.

It's used constantly by bloggers and content managers setting the URL slug field when publishing a post, developers generating consistent file names from user-submitted titles, and anyone building a static site where page URLs need to be derived from a page title automatically rather than typed by hand every time. Because it runs locally, you can generate slugs from draft titles you haven't published yet without any of that content leaving your browser.

Frequently asked questions

What happens to numbers in my title?+
Numbers are preserved as-is; only letters are lowercased and punctuation/spaces are removed or converted to your chosen separator.
Does it remove special characters like accented letters?+
Common punctuation and symbols are stripped. Accented letters are kept as typed — for full ASCII transliteration (e.g. é → e), a manual check is recommended for very particular URL requirements.
Should I use hyphens or underscores for SEO?+
Hyphens are the widely recommended convention for URL slugs, since major search engines treat them as word separators; underscores can sometimes be read as joining words together instead.
Can I generate a slug from a full sentence or paragraph?+
Yes, though slugs are conventionally kept short — consider using only the key words from a long sentence for a cleaner, more readable URL.

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