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Slug Generator

Turn any text into a clean URL slug. Transliterates accents and non-Latin scripts to ASCII, with options for the separator, letter case and a length limit. Handles many titles at once, one line per slug.

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Options

Characters. Slugs are cut at a word, never mid-word.

URL preview

Each slug shown inside an example link, with its own copy button.

Type a title above to see how it reads as a link.

Next steps

Send this tool's output straight into another tool.

Convert text into every case at once: title case in the APA, AP, Chicago, MLA, Bluebook, AMA and NYT styles, sentence case, upper, lower, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case and more, each with its own copy button.

Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines and more as you type, with estimated reading and speaking time.

Remove duplicate lines from a list or text, keeping the first occurrence. Optionally ignore case and whitespace, or drop blank lines too.

Replace text in two modes: plain find and replace all, or regular expressions with flag controls and capture group references like $1.

Compare two texts and see every added, removed and changed line highlighted, side by side or inline, with the changed words marked within each line. Ignore case, whitespace or blank lines, read a summary of how much changed, and export the result as a unified diff.

Paste a UUID to see what it carries: version, variant, and for time-based versions the exact timestamp, clock sequence and node. Also shows the raw bytes, the 128-bit integer and the URN form.

Decode Base64 to text or encode text to Base64. Paste into the top box, read the result below, and flip the direction with one click. Handles Unicode correctly, reads URL-safe Base64, and shows binary payloads as a hex dump you can download.

Convert between scientific notation and full numbers as you type. Reads 1.23e5, 1.23 × 10^5 and plain numbers, shows the value written out, in normalized scientific notation and in engineering notation, and can round to any number of significant digits.

Sort the lines of a text alphabetically, naturally, by length, by numeric value or shuffled. Reverse the order with a switch, and optionally trim lines, drop blank lines and remove duplicates in the same pass.

Convert a color between HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, HWB, CMYK, OKLCH and OKLAB. Type into any field and the others update as you go, or pick the color visually. Reads CSS color syntax and keeps alpha where the format supports it.

Check two colors against the WCAG contrast rules. Type or pick a text and a background color, read the contrast ratio, see which AA and AAA checks pass, preview real text at the sizes WCAG distinguishes, and get suggested fixes when a check fails.

Create a QR code for text, a link, an email, a phone number, an SMS, Wi-Fi access or a contact card. Set the error correction level, size, margin and colors, then download it as PNG or SVG or copy it straight to the clipboard.

Paste a cron expression and get a plain English explanation, a field by field breakdown and the next times it would run, in your local timezone or UTC. Reads five field crontab syntax, six fields with seconds, names like MON and macros like @daily.

Work out an IPv4 or IPv6 network from an address with a prefix or netmask: network and broadcast addresses, usable host range, subnet mask, wildcard mask and address type. Adjust the prefix with a slider, read the binary breakdown, and split the network into smaller subnets.

Hash text or a file with MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-3, BLAKE2, BLAKE3, CRC32 and more, all computed live as you type. Compare against an expected checksum and copy any digest.

Verify a checksum online: drop a file, paste the expected checksum and see instantly whether they match. The hash type is detected from the checksum itself, covering MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, BLAKE3, CRC-32 and more, and sha256sum lines or whole checksum files can be pasted as-is.

Encode text for use in URLs or decode percent-escaped strings back to readable text. Choose component, full-URL or form encoding, unwrap double-encoded strings, and break a URL into its parts with every query parameter decoded.

Convert Unix timestamps in seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or nanoseconds to readable dates in your local time, UTC or any timezone, and turn any date back into a timestamp. Shows the live current timestamp and relative time.

Escape text into HTML entities or decode entities back to plain text. Choose named or numeric entities, escape only the unsafe characters or everything outside ASCII, and read the result live.

Paste a JSON Web Token to see its header and payload as formatted JSON, with the token color coded so each part maps to its output. Explains the registered claims, shows expiry as readable dates, flags expired tokens and can verify the signature with a secret or public key.

Compress text or a file with gzip, deflate, brotli or Zstandard and see the size before and after, the compression ratio and how long it took. One click tries every method and recommends the smallest result.

Decompress gzip, deflate, brotli or Zstandard data from a file or pasted Base64 and read the result as text or download it. Detects the format from the magic bytes where possible, with a manual override.

Paste anything that looks encoded and this tool works out what was used and undoes it, layer by layer. The whole BaseXX family from Base16 to Base85, binary, URL escapes, HTML entities, ROT13 and gzip, Brotli or Zstandard compression are detected in any combination, and every step of the chain is reported.

Escape or unescape a string for JSON, JavaScript, regex, shell, SQL, CSV, XML and more. Paste text, pick the target format and copy the result, in either direction.

Paste a PEM certificate to see its subject, issuer, validity dates, subject alternative names, key details, fingerprints and extensions in plain view.

Paste a 2FA secret or an otpauth:// link and watch the one-time codes tick live, with a countdown to the next code. Supports the digit counts, periods and algorithms real authenticators use.

Format code in JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, JSON5, HTML, Vue, CSS, SCSS, LESS, Markdown, YAML, GraphQL, XML and SQL. Pick tabs or spaces, set the indent width, and format the input in place with one click.

Reveal the characters you can't see in a text: zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, bidi marks, control characters and CRLF versus LF line endings. Inspect every occurrence and clean them out with a click.

Test a regular expression against your own text and see every match highlighted as you type. Capture groups are color coded in the pattern, the matched text and the match list, so you always see which parentheses captured what. Toggle any JavaScript regex flag, read the exact error when a pattern is invalid, and copy all matches as a list.

Split a long text into numbered posts that fit a character limit. Pick a preset for X, Threads, Mastodon or Bluesky or set your own limit, choose the numbering style, and keep words or paragraphs intact. Copy each post on its own or all at once.

Build a Markdown table in a spreadsheet-like editor and copy the aligned result. Add, move and delete rows and columns, set per-column alignment, and paste cells straight from Excel, Google Sheets or CSV. The output stays neatly padded so it reads well as plain text.

Turn any text into a clean URL slug. Transliterates accents and non-Latin scripts to ASCII, with options for the separator, letter case and a length limit. Handles many titles at once, one line per slug.

Break a URL into scheme, host, port, path, query and fragment, and edit every part on its own. Query parameters become an editable table where you can change, add, remove and reorder values, with everything decoded for reading and the rebuilt URL ready to copy.

Inspect any file or text as a hex dump with offsets, byte values and an ASCII column. Jump to an offset, search for bytes or text, select a range to see it decoded as integers and strings, and copy or download the dump.

Look up any HTTP status code in a searchable, filterable table. Search by number or name, filter by class from 1xx to 5xx, and expand any code for a plain explanation and a link to the spec. Includes the common non-standard codes from nginx, Cloudflare and others.

About the Slug Generator

This tool turns titles into clean URL slugs. Paste one title per line and every line becomes a slug, so a whole content plan can be converted in one go. Accented letters and non-Latin scripts like Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic are transliterated to plain ASCII.

The options cover the choices that actually differ between sites: the separator, the letter case, how German umlauts are spelled, an optional length limit and a stop word filter. A preview shows each slug inside an example link so you can judge how it reads.

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.

Decode Base64 to text or encode text to Base64. Paste into the top box, read the result below, and flip the direction with one click. Handles Unicode correctly, reads URL-safe Base64, and shows binary payloads as a hex dump you can download.

Escape text into HTML entities or decode entities back to plain text. Choose named or numeric entities, escape only the unsafe characters or everything outside ASCII, and read the result live.

Paste anything that looks encoded and this tool works out what was used and undoes it, layer by layer. The whole BaseXX family from Base16 to Base85, binary, URL escapes, HTML entities, ROT13 and gzip, Brotli or Zstandard compression are detected in any combination, and every step of the chain is reported.

Escape or unescape a string for JSON, JavaScript, regex, shell, SQL, CSV, XML and more. Paste text, pick the target format and copy the result, in either direction.

Encode text for use in URLs or decode percent-escaped strings back to readable text. Choose component, full-URL or form encoding, unwrap double-encoded strings, and break a URL into its parts with every query parameter decoded.

Format code in JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, JSON5, HTML, Vue, CSS, SCSS, LESS, Markdown, YAML, GraphQL, XML and SQL. Pick tabs or spaces, set the indent width, and format the input in place with one click.