URL Slug Generator

How to use it

1. 1Paste your text into the box marked "Title or heading"Paste the heading you want turned into a URL slug. Everything happens inside your browser — nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing for us to store, log or lose.
2. 2Read the result as it updatesThere is no button to press. The slug appears immediately and updates as you change the options. The output recomputes every time you change the text or one of the options above it.
3. 3Choose the separatorA hyphen is the convention and what search engines expect. Underscores work but read as one word to some tooling.
4. 4Decide what to do with accents and non-Latin textBy default accented characters are transliterated, so Café becomes cafe. Keeping the original characters produces a valid modern URL that looks worse when pasted somewhere that percent-encodes it.
5. 5Consider dropping common wordsRemoving "the", "a" and "of" shortens a slug without losing meaning. It is optional because sometimes those words carry the sense of the title.
6. 6Set a maximum lengthTruncation happens at a word boundary rather than mid-word, so a capped slug still reads as words.
7. 7Copy or download the resultThe buttons under the output put it on your clipboard or save it as a file, and each one says exactly what it will copy or download. Any note about something the tool changed or deliberately left alone is shown with the result rather than hidden.

About this tool

A slug is the readable part of a URL: the "url-slug-generator" in this page's address. Good slugs are lower case, hyphen-separated, short, and stable — once published, changing one costs you the links pointing at it.

The hard part is not replacing spaces with hyphens. It is deciding what to do with characters that have no ASCII equivalent, and this tool is explicit about the limit of what it can do faithfully rather than inventing a transliteration.

Understanding the result

Accented Latin letters are folded to their base: café becomes cafe, Münster becomes munster. That is a faithful simplification, not a guess.

Symbols are spelled out — "&" becomes "and", "%" becomes "percent" — before anything is stripped, so meaning is not silently deleted.

Characters from other scripts are removed and reported, with the count and a sample. Turning them into Latin needs a per-language scheme, and guessing produces a slug that is wrong in a way the author cannot see. "Keep original characters" is offered instead, and is often the better answer.

Example

How to Configure Nginx for Café Münster — 2026 Edition

how-to-configure-nginx-for-cafe-munster-2026-edition

Limitations

• There is no transliteration. Chinese needs pronunciation rather than character mapping, and Greek "χ" is "ch" in one scheme and "kh" in another. The tool drops what it cannot convert faithfully and says so.
• Dropping common words is wrong for names and titles, so it is off by default and warns when it changes the result.
• Truncation cuts at a word boundary, except when the first word alone exceeds the limit.
• A slug that is unique matters more than a slug that is pretty. This tool cannot know what already exists on your site.

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