Slug Generator

A Slug Generator converts raw text — such as blog post titles, product names, or page headings — into clean, URL-friendly strings. It strips special characters, replaces spaces with hyphens, and normalizes casing so the result is safe to use directly in a browser URL, REST API route, or CMS permalink. Instead of a messy URL like /My Blog Post (2024)!, you get something clean and readable like /my-blog-post-2024.

For developers, having consistent and predictable slugs is critical for SEO, routing logic, and database lookups. Manually sanitizing strings is error-prone and inconsistent across team members. This tool provides an instant, reliable transformation that follows widely accepted URL slug conventions — saving time and eliminating bugs caused by unexpected characters in URLs.

Using the tool is straightforward: paste or type any text into the input field and the slug is generated instantly. The output is lowercased, with all whitespace converted to hyphens and any characters that are not alphanumeric or hyphens removed entirely. Accented or special characters like é, ñ, or ü are typically transliterated or stripped to keep the slug ASCII-safe and universally compatible across servers and browsers.

The tool handles common edge cases such as consecutive spaces (collapsed into a single hyphen), leading and trailing whitespace (trimmed before processing), and repeated hyphens (deduplicated into one). For example, the input Hello, World!! -- Today becomes hello-world-today. Punctuation like commas, exclamation marks, and slashes are silently removed rather than converted, which is the standard behavior expected by most routing frameworks.

One thing to be aware of: if your input contains numbers at the start (e.g., 123 My Title), the slug will begin with a number — 123-my-title. This is technically valid in a URL but some CMS platforms or routing rules may not accept it. Always verify the output against your specific platform's slug requirements before deploying.