How to use the Text to Slug
Generate a clean URL slug in seconds:
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Paste or type your text
Enter any title, phrase, or sentence you want to slugify.
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Choose a separator
Select hyphen (-), underscore (_), or dot (.) as the word separator depending on your platform's convention.
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Preview the slug
The slug is generated instantly with lowercase letters, your chosen separator, and all special characters removed.
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Copy and use
Click Copy to grab the slug and paste it into your CMS, code, or URL field.
When to use this tool
Use this tool whenever you need URL-safe strings from human-readable text:
- →Generating URL slugs from blog post titles for WordPress, Ghost, or Next.js
- →Creating file names from document titles or headings
- →Converting product names to URL-safe identifiers for e-commerce platforms like Shopify
- →Generating React Router or Next.js dynamic route paths from page titles
- →Building consistent IDs for CMS content, categories, and tags
- →Creating anchor links and table-of-contents IDs from heading text
Frequently asked questions
Q:How are accented characters handled?
Accented characters are normalized to their ASCII equivalents using Unicode NFD decomposition before slugifying: é→e, ü→u, ñ→n, ç→c. This ensures clean, ASCII-only slugs that work in all URLs and file systems.
Q:What characters are kept in slugs?
Only lowercase a-z, digits 0-9, and the chosen separator character (hyphen, underscore, or dot) are kept. All other characters including special symbols, quotes, and brackets are removed. Consecutive separators are collapsed into one, and leading/trailing separators are stripped.
Q:What's the best separator to use — hyphen, underscore, or dot?
Hyphens (-) are the Google-recommended choice for SEO and are the most widely used in URLs. Underscores (_) are common in Python file names and some legacy systems. Dots (.) are used in some domain and package naming conventions. For public URLs and blog posts, always prefer hyphens.
Q:Does this tool work with non-English text?
Yes — the tool handles accented Latin characters (French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc.) by converting them to their closest ASCII equivalents. Characters from scripts without ASCII equivalents (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic) are removed. For multilingual slugs, consider keeping the original Unicode characters in your URL encoding strategy.
Q:Is there a maximum length for slugs?
There is no hard limit in this tool, but best practice is to keep slugs under 75 characters for readability and SEO. Search engines can index longer URLs, but shorter, descriptive slugs tend to perform better in search results and are easier to share.
Q:Can I use this tool to generate slugs programmatically?
This is a browser-based tool for manual conversions. For programmatic use in Node.js projects, popular libraries like `slugify` and `limax` implement the same logic and can be installed via npm. The core algorithm is: normalize NFD → remove non-ASCII accents → lowercase → replace non-alphanumeric with separator → deduplicate separator.