What characters are allowed in the output slug?

Only lowercase letters (a-z), digits (0-9), and hyphens (-). All other characters — spaces, punctuation, accents, symbols — are either transliterated or removed.

Does this handle accented characters like é, ü, or ñ?

Yes. Common accented Latin characters are mapped to their ASCII base before slugifying, so "Über Café" becomes "uber-cafe".

Is there a character limit?

There is no hard limit enforced by this tool, but SEO best practices recommend keeping slugs under 75 characters to avoid URL truncation in search results.

Does anything leave my browser?

Nothing. The entire conversion runs in JavaScript inside your browser tab. No text is transmitted to any server.

Can I use this for non-English text?

Partially. The tool strips characters it cannot transliterate, which may result in an empty or very short slug for purely non-Latin scripts. For those cases you may need a language-specific slugification library.

What is the difference between a slug and a URL?

A slug is the human-readable segment at the end of a URL path (e.g., "my-blog-post" in "/blog/my-blog-post"). A full URL also includes the scheme, domain, and path prefix.

Text To Slug

Paste any text and instantly get a clean, URL-safe slug — lowercase, hyphenated, no special characters.

Input Text

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Summary

This tool converts any text string into a URL-safe slug by lowercasing all characters, replacing spaces and special characters with hyphens, and stripping anything that does not belong in a clean URL. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server. Use it to generate slugs for blog posts, product pages, categories, or any URL segment that needs to be human-readable and SEO-friendly.

How it works

Type or paste your text into the input field on the left.
The tool instantly lowercases all letters.
Accented and Unicode characters are transliterated to their ASCII equivalents.
Spaces and non-alphanumeric characters are replaced with hyphens.
Consecutive hyphens are collapsed into one, and leading/trailing hyphens are trimmed.
Click "Copy Slug" to copy the result to your clipboard with one click.

Use cases

Generate SEO-friendly URL slugs for blog posts and articles.
Create category and tag slugs for a CMS like WordPress or Ghost.
Produce clean route segments for REST APIs and web apps.
Convert product names into URL-safe identifiers for e-commerce stores.
Sanitize user-supplied titles before saving them to a database slug field.
Generate file names from titles when building static sites.
Quickly convert page headings into anchor IDs for internal links.
Test slug logic during front-end or back-end development.

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Last updated: 2026-05-29 · Reviewed by Nham Vu