Slugify
Convert text into clean URL slugs by lowercasing, stripping accents, collapsing separators, and normalizing punctuation.
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How to use
- Paste your text. Titles, headings, filenames, or any phrase.
- Pick a separator. Use dashes or underscores depending on your target format.
- Copy the slug. Use the output in URLs, anchors, filenames, or IDs.
Common use cases
- Turning blog titles into SEO-friendly URLs
- Normalizing filenames for static assets
- Generating stable IDs from labels or headings
- Batch-slugifying a list of titles for a programmatic SEO build
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug and why does it matter for SEO?
- A slug is the readable part of a URL after the domain (e.g. /getting-started-guide). Search engines and people both prefer short, lowercase, hyphen-separated slugs that hint at the page topic. Clean slugs also click-through better in social shares.
- Are accented characters and other Unicode handled?
- Yes. Accents (café, déjà), umlauts, and other diacritics are stripped to their ASCII equivalents (cafe, deja). Other non-Latin scripts are removed unless your target system supports them; transliterate first if you need them preserved.
- What does Remove stop words do?
- It strips common English filler words (a, the, and, or, of, in, for) before joining. Useful for shortening long titles into compact slugs without losing meaning. Disable it for non-English content.
- When should I use dash vs underscore as the separator?
- Dashes are the SEO standard for URL slugs and are how Google treats word boundaries. Underscores are the convention for filenames, identifiers, and database keys. Pick the one that matches the system the slug will live in.
- What is Multi-line mode for?
- It treats each input line as a separate title and slugifies them independently. Paste a list of headings and get back a parallel list of slugs, perfect for batch operations during a programmatic SEO build.
- Does this run in the browser?
- Yes. Slugification is local with no network round-trip; titles never leave your machine.
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How to use
- Paste your text. Titles, headings, filenames, or any phrase.
- Pick a separator. Use dashes or underscores depending on your target format.
- Copy the slug. Use the output in URLs, anchors, filenames, or IDs.
Common use cases
- Turning blog titles into SEO-friendly URLs
- Normalizing filenames for static assets
- Generating stable IDs from labels or headings
- Batch-slugifying a list of titles for a programmatic SEO build
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug and why does it matter for SEO?
- A slug is the readable part of a URL after the domain (e.g. /getting-started-guide). Search engines and people both prefer short, lowercase, hyphen-separated slugs that hint at the page topic. Clean slugs also click-through better in social shares.
- Are accented characters and other Unicode handled?
- Yes. Accents (café, déjà), umlauts, and other diacritics are stripped to their ASCII equivalents (cafe, deja). Other non-Latin scripts are removed unless your target system supports them; transliterate first if you need them preserved.
- What does Remove stop words do?
- It strips common English filler words (a, the, and, or, of, in, for) before joining. Useful for shortening long titles into compact slugs without losing meaning. Disable it for non-English content.
- When should I use dash vs underscore as the separator?
- Dashes are the SEO standard for URL slugs and are how Google treats word boundaries. Underscores are the convention for filenames, identifiers, and database keys. Pick the one that matches the system the slug will live in.
- What is Multi-line mode for?
- It treats each input line as a separate title and slugifies them independently. Paste a list of headings and get back a parallel list of slugs, perfect for batch operations during a programmatic SEO build.
- Does this run in the browser?
- Yes. Slugification is local with no network round-trip; titles never leave your machine.