Text to Slug

How to generate a URL slug

1. Type or paste a title in the input box, for example the headline of a blog post or the name of a product.
2. The slug appears immediately in the result box. Generate slug simply refreshes it.
3. Choose a Separator: Hyphen (-) is the usual choice for web addresses, Underscore (_) and Dot (.) suit file names and identifiers.
4. Pick a language under Remove stop words to drop small words such as “the”, “and”, “of” or “le”, “de”, “et”.
5. Set a Maximum length (0 = no limit) if your platform or style guide limits slug length. The slug is cut after a whole word, never in the middle of one.
6. Tick Bulk mode (one title per line) to convert a whole list at once, then copy the result.

What the slug generator does

A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like best-hiking-trails-quebec in example.com/blog/best-hiking-trails-quebec. This tool builds it in a few predictable steps:

• Accents are removed and special letters are written in plain ASCII: “Crème brûlée” becomes creme-brulee, “Straße” becomes strasse, “Łódź” becomes lodz and “Ærø” becomes aero.
• Cyrillic and Greek are transliterated: “Москва” becomes moskva and “Αθήνα” becomes athina. Scripts without a simple Latin equivalent (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew…) and emoji are dropped, so write those titles in Latin letters yourself.
• German umlauts: by default “Müller” becomes muller. Tick Write German umlauts as ae, oe, ue to follow the German convention and get mueller.
• English contractions lose their apostrophe (“don’t” → dont, “John’s” → johns), while other apostrophes separate words (“l’été” → l-ete).
• Punctuation, spaces and symbols all become a single separator. Separators never appear twice in a row, nor at the start or end.
• Lowercase is on by default because URLs can be case-sensitive and lowercase avoids duplicates.

Stop words and length

Stop words are short, frequent words that carry little meaning. Removing them gives shorter slugs: “The Art of War and Peace” becomes art-war-peace. The lists are deliberately short (articles, common prepositions and conjunctions) so that meaningful words are never lost. If a title is made only of stop words, such as “The Who”, its words are kept.

Search engines don’t require short slugs, but short ones are easier to read, share and remember. Many sites keep slugs under 50–60 characters. When you set a maximum length, the slug keeps as many whole words as fit.

Bulk mode

In bulk mode each line becomes one slug, and empty lines stay empty so the output lines up with your list, ready to paste into a spreadsheet column. With Make repeated slugs unique (-2, -3…), two titles that would give the same slug get a number suffix, as most content management systems do: first-post, first-post-2.