How slug generator works
A slug is a URL-friendly version of a text string, used in web addresses for blog posts, products, and pages. For example, a blog post titled How to Bake Bread becomes the slug how-to-bake-bread, which is clean, readable, and SEO-friendly.
This generator creates slugs by converting text to lowercase, removing accents (so cafe becomes cafe), stripping special characters and punctuation, replacing spaces and separators with your chosen separator (hyphen or underscore), and trimming leading and trailing separators.
The resulting slug contains only lowercase letters, numbers, and the separator character. It is safe to use in URLs and will not break with special characters or non-Latin scripts.
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable form. For example, in the URL example.com/blog/how-to-bake-bread, the slug is how-to-bake-bread. Slugs should be lowercase, use hyphens, and avoid special characters.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?
Hyphens are the standard for SEO. Google recommends hyphens over underscores because search engines treat hyphens as word separators, while underscores are treated as part of the word. This tool defaults to hyphens.
How are accents and special characters handled?
The generator normalizes Unicode text to remove accents (so eacute becomes e), then removes any character that is not a lowercase letter, number, or separator. This ensures the slug is ASCII-safe and URL-friendly.
Can I use this for any type of text?
Yes. Paste any title, heading, or text and the generator produces a clean slug. It works for blog post titles, product names, category names, or any text you want to use in a URL.