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Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug. Nothing is uploaded.

The Slug Generator NFKD-normalizes text, strips combining marks, maps & to “and”, and collapses every run outside a–z and 0–9 into a single separator — live, in the browser.

Slug

uber-cool-10-tips-and-tricks-for-faster-builds

46 charactersGenerated locally — nothing leaves this tab

What does the Slug Generator do?

A slug is the URL-safe version of a title: lowercase letters, digits and a separator, nothing else. Search engines and readers both prefer /10-tips-and-tricks over /10%20Tips%20%26%20Tricks!. This tool generates the slug live as you type.

How does the Slug Generator work?

The text is Unicode-normalized (NFKD) so accented letters split into base letter plus combining mark, the marks are stripped (é becomes e), symbols like & become words (and), everything is lowercased, and any run of characters outside a–z and 0–9 collapses into a single separator. An optional max length truncates at a word boundary. All in this tab.

Does this upload my text?

No. This page never sends your input to a server — formatting, decoding and hashing all run in this tab, on this device.How that works.

Frequently asked questions

What happens to accents and non-Latin characters?

Accented Latin letters lose their accent: café becomes cafe, über becomes uber. Characters with no Latin base form — Chinese, Arabic, emoji — have no ASCII equivalent and are dropped, so check the result for non-Latin titles.

Hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but treats underscores as word joiners, so ten-tips is indexed as two words while ten_tips is one token. Use underscores only when a system requires them.

How long should a slug be?

There is no hard limit, but 3–6 meaningful words is typical. The max length option truncates at a word boundary so you never end mid-word.

Why did my & turn into “and”?

Ampersands carry meaning readers expect to survive, so & maps to the word and (similarly @ to at). Punctuation with no word equivalent is simply removed.

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