Text to URL Slug
Convert any title or string into a clean, hyphenated URL slug. Strips accents, punctuation, and spaces. Useful for generating SEO-friendly URLs and blog post paths.
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Type any title or sentence — a clean, URL-safe slug appears below.
Formula & explanation
Lowercase, NFD-normalize to strip diacritics, replace non-alphanumeric runs with a single hyphen, trim leading/trailing hyphens.
Examples
"My Daily Tools — The Best!" → "my-daily-tools-the-best".
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug?
- A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, typically derived from the page title. For example, a post titled 'Best Coffee Recipes' might have the slug best-coffee-recipes.
- Why are hyphens used instead of spaces in slugs?
- Spaces are not valid in URLs without encoding (they become %20). Hyphens are the standard word separator for slugs because they are URL-safe, readable, and treated as word separators by search engines.
- Does this handle accented characters like é or ü?
- Yes. Accented letters are decomposed using Unicode NFD normalization and the diacritic marks are stripped, so 'café' becomes 'cafe'.
- What is the maximum recommended length for a URL slug?
- Most SEO guides recommend keeping slugs under 60–75 characters (roughly 3–5 keywords). Shorter slugs are easier to share and less likely to be truncated.
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