Slugify
Convert text to URL-friendly slugs. Supports lowercase conversion, special character removal, and separator selection (hyphen or underscore).
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How to Use
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Enter your text
Type or paste the text you want to convert into a slug in the text area above.
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Choose a separator
Select a separator: hyphen (-) or underscore (_). The default is hyphen.
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Copy the result
Review the generated slug in real time and click the 'Copy' button to copy it to your clipboard.
Input Text
Generated Slug
About Slugify
Slugify is an online tool that converts text into URL-friendly slugs. It automatically handles lowercase conversion, special character removal, and space-to-separator conversion, generating optimal slugs for blog posts and web page URLs. A slug is the short identifier that appears in a URL path, such as "my-blog-post" — it directly affects both SEO performance and how shareable your links look. Pasting a raw title into a URL often results in encoded characters and long strings, but this tool transforms any text into a clean, readable ASCII slug in one step. Hyphen-separated slugs follow Google's recommended URL format for search visibility, while underscore-separated slugs match common programming file naming conventions.
Key Features
- Real-time conversion of text to URL-friendly slugs
- Choose between hyphen or underscore separators
- Automatic removal of special characters and symbols
- One-click copy to clipboard
- Automatic normalization of consecutive separators
- Leading and trailing separator trimming
Use Cases
- Generate URL slugs for blog posts and pages
- Create SEO-friendly permalinks for WordPress or Ghost
- Convert filenames to web-safe formats
- Generate anchor IDs for heading links
- Create clean API endpoint paths
FAQ
Is my data sent to a server?
No. Slug generation runs as JavaScript in your browser. Text data is not transmitted externally.
How are special characters and symbols handled?
Characters other than letters, numbers, and separators are automatically removed. Spaces are converted to the selected separator.
Can I convert non-Latin text (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.)?
Non-Latin characters are removed. Slugs are composed only of ASCII characters that are safe for use in URLs.
Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Google recommends hyphens (-) as URL separators for SEO purposes, as they are treated as word separators in search indexing. Underscores (_) are common in Python file naming and database conventions. For public-facing URLs, hyphens are generally the better choice.
What is the difference between URL encoding and slugifying?
URL encoding (percent-encoding) converts characters into a %XX format so they can be safely transmitted in a URL. Slugifying, on the other hand, restructures the text itself to be human-readable, memorable, and SEO-friendly using only ASCII characters that need no encoding.
How are accented characters like é or ñ handled?
Accented Latin characters are stripped of their diacritics and converted to their base form (e.g., é becomes e, ñ becomes n). Characters that have no ASCII equivalent are removed entirely.