Slug Generator

What you can do

• Turn a blog post or page title into an SEO friendly URL slug.
• Convert a whole list of titles at once, one slug per line.
• Transliterate accents, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic to ASCII.
• Spell German umlauts as ae, oe and ue, or as plain a, o and u.
• Pick a dash, underscore, dot or no separator, or output camelCase.
• Limit the slug length, cut at a word boundary instead of mid-word.
• Remove English stop words like a, the and of for shorter slugs.
• Spell out symbols, so & becomes and, @ becomes at and % becomes percent.

How to use the Slug Generator

1. 1Paste your titles into the input, one per line.
2. 2Pick the separator, letter case and umlaut style, and set a max length if your CMS needs one.
3. 3Toggle stop word removal, symbol spelling and camelCase splitting to taste.
4. 4Copy or download all slugs from the output, or copy a single one from the URL preview.

What makes a good slug

A good slug is short, lowercase, dash separated and made of the words someone would search for. Search engines treat hyphens as word boundaries, which is why the dash is the default here. Stop words such as a, the and of add length without adding meaning, so the stop word filter drops them while keeping the words that carry the topic. If a title is nothing but stop words, the filter steps aside rather than produce an empty slug.

The length limit never cuts a word in half. It drops whole words from the end until the slug fits, so ten-tips-for-better-sleep limited to 12 characters becomes ten-tips-for, not ten-tips-for-b.

Umlauts and other scripts

German umlauts have two common ASCII spellings and the right one depends on your audience. The German convention writes ä as ae, ö as oe and ü as ue, which keeps the pronunciation and is what German readers expect in a URL. The simple style writes them as plain a, o and u, which many international CMSes default to. Both spell ß as ss.

Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and other scripts with a Latin transliteration become readable ASCII, so я люблю единорогов turns into ya-lyublyu-edinorogov. Scripts without a Latin mapping, such as Chinese and Japanese, have no sensible one-to-one transliteration and are dropped instead, so check those slugs by hand. Emoji are removed too, apart from a few with a word spelling.

Batches, casing and next steps

Output lines match input lines exactly, including empty ones, so slugs pasted back into a spreadsheet stay aligned with their titles. The casing options go beyond lowercase: keep the original case where your system is case sensitive, or pick camelCase for identifiers, where the separator is dropped automatically. Source text that is already camelCase is split into words first, and you can turn that off when fooBar should stay one word.

To clean the title list before slugging, remove repeats with the Dedupe Lines tool. To restyle the titles themselves, use the Text Case Converter. To take a generated slug apart inside a full address, the URL Parser breaks a URL into its pieces.