Slug Generator

A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page — the "best-coffee-shops-in-sao-paulo" in yoursite.com/blog/best-coffee-shops-in-sao-paulo. Getting it right matters more than it looks: search engines give some weight to keywords in a URL, broken slugs with double hyphens or stray punctuation look unpolished, and a slug that's needlessly long is harder to share and remember. Most basic slugify tools handle the easy case — spaces to hyphens, lowercase everything — and then quietly fall over on anything harder.

The harder cases are common. A title like "Café Costa Rica — 20% Off!" has an accented letter, an em dash, a percent sign, and an exclamation mark. Run it through a naive slugifier and you'll often get something broken — an empty string, a slug full of stray dashes, or "caf" where "café" should be. This tool normalizes accented and many non-Latin characters down to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent (café becomes cafe, not an empty gap), strips punctuation cleanly, and collapses everything else into single, evenly spaced hyphens or underscores, whichever separator you choose.

Two options go further than most slugifiers bother to: stop-word removal, which drops short filler words like "a", "the", and "of" to produce a noticeably shorter, punchier slug for long titles; and word-boundary-safe length limiting, which truncates a slug down to a maximum character count without ever cutting a word in half — so a 90-character title trimmed to 60 characters ends cleanly at a word boundary instead of mid-word.

Batch mode is built for a different kind of job entirely: migrating a spreadsheet of blog post titles, generating slugs for a bulk CMS import, or auditing a whole list of URLs at once. Paste in a list of titles, one per line, and every option above applies to the whole batch simultaneously. Duplicate titles are automatically handled by appending a numbered suffix (so two posts both called "Getting Started" become getting-started and getting-started-2), and the whole result can be copied per row or exported as a CSV file for use anywhere else. Like every tool here, all of this runs locally — your titles are never uploaded anywhere to be processed.