URL Slug Generator

What a URL slug is

A slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page — the best-coffee-recipes in example.com/best-coffee-recipes. Good slugs are short, lowercase, and use hyphens between words so both people and search engines can read them at a glance. This tool takes any headline, product name, or phrase and turns it into a clean slug you can drop straight into a URL, a filename, or a CMS field.

Why clean slugs matter

Search engines treat words in the URL as a light ranking signal, and a tidy slug is easier to share, remember, and link to. Messy URLs full of spaces (%20), capital letters, or accented characters can break links, get encoded into gibberish, or create duplicate-content headaches. Stripping accents and punctuation keeps your addresses portable across every browser and server. Everything here runs in your browser — nothing you type is uploaded anywhere.

How to use it

1. Type or paste your title into the box — a headline, blog post name, or product title all work.
2. Pick your separator: a hyphen (the web standard) or an underscore.
3. Leave Lowercase and Strip accents on for maximum compatibility, or turn them off if you need to preserve case or original letters.
4. Read the finished slug in the result box and check the character count.
5. Click Copy slug and paste it into your URL, CMS, or file name.

FAQ

Should I use hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens are the web standard and are recommended by most search engines, which read - as a word separator. Use underscores only if a specific system requires them.

What happens to accented letters like é or ü?

With "Strip accents" on, they become their closest plain ASCII letter — é to e, ü to u, ß to ss — so the slug works everywhere.

Are my titles sent to a server?

No. All conversion happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored.

Is there a length limit?

The tool doesn't cap length, but shorter slugs (under about 60 characters) are easier to read and share. Trim your title to the key words before generating.