Text to Slug Converter

Type a title and get a clean URL slug: lowercase, spaces turned into hyphens, punctuation removed, accents flattened. "My Blog Post Title! (2024)" becomes "my-blog-post-title-2024". It updates live and shows a preview of how the slug looks in a real URL, so you can see the result in context.

Slugs are the human-readable part of a URL — the /my-blog-post-title bit. A good slug is short, lowercase, and uses hyphens between words, because that's what's readable, portable across systems, and friendly to both people and search engines. This tool handles the fiddly parts: stripping characters that don't belong in URLs, collapsing repeated separators, and trimming stray separators from the ends.

You can switch the separator (hyphen, underscore, dot, or none), toggle lowercasing, turn accent removal on or off, and cap the length so long titles don't produce absurdly long slugs. The click-to-try examples show how it handles messy real-world titles.

Accent removal uses Unicode NFD normalization: it decomposes accented letters into a base letter plus a combining mark, then strips the combining marks, so café becomes cafe and naïve becomes naive. After that, everything except letters, numbers, spaces, and the separator is removed, whitespace runs collapse to a single separator, repeated separators are merged, and leading/trailing separators are trimmed. If you set a max length, the slug is cut to that length and any separator left dangling at the cut is removed.

The important limitation: this only keeps A–Z, 0–9. NFD normalization handles Latin diacritics, but characters from non-Latin scripts — Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean — have no base ASCII letter to fall back to, so they're stripped entirely rather than transliterated. A title written in those scripts can produce an empty or number-only slug. Everything runs in your browser as you type.

Most slug generators do the same core job. Where this one is careful is the edge handling: collapsing duplicate separators, trimming ends, and cleaning up after a length cut, so you don't get slugs like my--post- with trailing junk. The live URL preview and adjustable separator/length also make it quick to match whatever convention your CMS or router uses.

If your content is in a non-Latin script and you need real transliteration (turning Москва into moskva or 東京 into tokyo), this won't do it — those need a language-specific transliteration library. For Latin-script titles, which is the common case, this covers it.