Text to Slug and URL Generator

Convert any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug. Handles special characters and accented Latin letters automatically.

Text to Slug and URL Generator tool

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Example

Input: 10 Tips & Tricks for Café Owners!

Result: 10-tips-tricks-for-cafe-owners

Text is lowercased, accents are stripped (é becomes e), symbols like & and ! are removed, and spaces become single hyphens.

Example Slugs

TitleSlug
Hello Worldhello-world
Top 10 Best Coffee Shops in New York!top-10-best-coffee-shops-in-new-york
Crème Brûlée Recipecreme-brulee-recipe
Straße & Caféstrasse-cafe
How to Use C++ / Javahow-to-use-c-java
Don't Panic: A Guidedont-panic-a-guide
Smørrebrød in Københavnsmorrebrod-in-kobenhavn
user_profile_settingsuser-profile-settings

With the default hyphen separator.

  1. Type or paste the title or text you want to turn into a slug.
  2. Read the slug that appears at once, with spaces turned into hyphens and symbols removed.
  3. Choose Hyphen or Underscore in the Separator menu.
  4. Check that accented letters became plain letters (for example, café becomes cafe).
  5. Click the copy button to copy the slug.

What Makes a Good URL Slug

A slug is the readable part of a web address that names a page, such as best-hiking-boots in example.com/blog/best-hiking-boots. This generator turns any title into one. It lowercases the text, turns spaces into hyphens and removes symbols, so "Top 10 Best Coffee Shops in New York!" becomes top-10-best-coffee-shops-in-new-york.

Accents are removed, so "Crème Brûlée" becomes creme-brulee. Letters that are more than a plain letter plus an accent are spelled out: ß becomes ss, æ becomes ae, ø becomes o and þ becomes th. Letters from other scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic or Chinese, are dropped, so write those titles in Latin letters first. Underscores, slashes, colons, commas and plus signs act as word breaks. Runs of breaks shrink to one, and none are left at the start or end.

Google suggests hyphens rather than underscores between words in URLs, so hyphen is the default. You can switch to underscores for file names or systems that need them. Good slugs are short and say what the page is about. Many writers cut filler words such as "a" and "the" by hand, but the tool keeps every word so you stay in control.

To see how a full address is put together, try the URL Parser. If you need to keep special characters rather than remove them, URL Encode and Decode turns them into percent codes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Use hyphens. Google advises hyphens to separate words in URLs, because it reads a hyphen as a space between words. An underscore can make two words look like one. Underscores are fine for file names and code, and this tool offers both, with hyphen as the default.
There is no official limit, but shorter is easier to read, share and remember. Aim for the few words that say what the page is about, such as blue-running-shoes rather than the full headline. Drop words like "the", "and" or a year if they add nothing, and avoid stuffing in extra keywords.
Only if you have a good reason. Changing it breaks every link and bookmark that points to the old address. If you do change it, set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. That sends visitors to the right page and tells search engines the move is permanent.
They are removed without leaving a gap. "Don't Panic" becomes dont-panic and "Tips & Tricks" becomes tips-tricks. If you want the word "and" in your slug, type it in place of the ampersand before you convert. The same goes for symbols such as % or #.

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