Free Online Text to Slug

A slug generator transforms a phrase into a URL-safe identifier: lowercase, hyphens for spaces, ASCII-only and free of special characters.

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How to Use This Text Tool

  1. Paste your title or phrase into the input field.
  2. The URL-safe slug appears in the output panel.
  3. Optionally enable max-length truncation for SEO-friendly slugs (~60 chars).
  4. Click Copy to send the slug to your clipboard.

What Is a Text to Slug?

URL slugs encode the page topic in a way both humans and search engines can read. Best practice: keep them short (3–5 words), lowercase, hyphenated, ASCII-only (so /café becomes /cafe) and free of stop-words where it does not hurt clarity. Google explicitly treats words in the URL as a weak ranking signal, so descriptive slugs help SEO.

This tool lowercases the input, folds accented characters to ASCII via Unicode NFD normalisation (é to e, ñ to n), strips any character that is not a-z, 0-9, space or hyphen, collapses runs of hyphens and spaces, then trims leading and trailing hyphens.

Optionally enforce a max length with word-boundary truncation for SEO-friendly slugs around 60 characters.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes a good slug?
Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens, contain no special characters, and reflect the content concisely. Example: 'My Blog Post!' becomes 'my-blog-post'.
How are special characters handled?
Accented letters are folded to ASCII (é becomes e) via Unicode NFD normalization. Other special characters and punctuation are removed; spaces become hyphens.
What about length?
Slugs are often limited to 50–60 characters for SEO and readability. Use the optional max-length setting to truncate at a word boundary.

Published by the WeGotEveryTool team. We build and test every tool in-house and update pages when the underlying spec, formula, or recommendation changes.

Reviewed: May 2026. Disclaimer: this tool is provided as-is for general informational use. For decisions with material consequences (medical, legal, financial, security) verify results against a qualified professional source.

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