Slug Generator
Convert titles to clean, URL-safe slugs. Pick a separator, set a max length, optionally strip stop words or preserve unicode. Single and bulk modes — runs entirely in your browser.
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About this tool
A URL slug is the human-readable tail of a URL — the part after the last slash. Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, free of punctuation, and free of accented or non-ASCII characters that some systems mangle. WRRK's slug generator handles all of that: Unicode normalisation (NFKD) strips diacritics so café becomes cafe; symbols and punctuation collapse to spaces; spaces collapse to your chosen separator; and length is clipped on word boundaries so a slug never ends with a stray hyphen.
Two modes: Single for one title at a time (with a big visual preview of the result), and Bulkfor paste-many-titles workflows where each line becomes its own slug with a per-row copy button or a single “Copy all”. Optional rules — strip stop words drops common articles and prepositions for tighter slugs; preserve unicode keeps non-Latin scripts (Devanagari, Cyrillic, Arabic, CJK) for localised CMS routing where modern browsers and search engines handle IRIs natively. Everything runs locally; your titles never leave the browser, which matters for unpublished drafts or pre-launch product names.
How to generate a slug (5 steps)
- Pick mode. Single (one title) or Bulk (one title per line).
- Choose separator. Hyphen (recommended for SEO), underscore, or dot.
- Set max length. Default 60. The tool clips on word boundaries so slugs don't end on a stray separator.
- Toggle rules. Strip stop words for shorter slugs; preserve unicode if you need non-ASCII scripts.
- Copy the result. Per-row copy in bulk mode, or one-click copy for single mode. Paste into your CMS, CSV, or codebase.
Use cases
- Generating SEO-friendly URLs for blog posts and articles
- Creating product slugs for an e-commerce CMS (Shopify, WooCommerce)
- Bulk-converting CSV title columns before a content import
- Building filename-safe identifiers from human input
- Generating GitHub issue or branch names from ticket titles
- Producing localised slugs for non-English content (with unicode preserved)
- Normalising tag and category URLs across a site migration
Frequently asked questions
+−What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable, URL-safe portion of a web address — e.g. 'how-to-bake-bread' in /blog/how-to-bake-bread. It's lowercase, uses hyphens (or underscores) instead of spaces, and strips punctuation, accents, and special characters so the URL works across browsers, CDNs, and email clients.
+−Should I use hyphens, underscores, or dots in slugs?
Hyphens. Google explicitly recommends hyphens — they're treated as word separators by every search engine, while underscores and dots are not. Use underscores only if a downstream system (S3 keys, file paths) requires them.
+−What does 'strip stop words' do?
It removes common low-value words (a, an, the, of, to, for, etc.) so 'How to Build a Slug Generator' becomes 'how-build-slug-generator' instead of 'how-to-build-a-slug-generator'. Shorter, cleaner, slightly better for SEO. Off by default — some teams prefer keeping stop words for natural readability.
+−What does 'preserve unicode' do?
By default the generator strips diacritics and drops non-ASCII characters, so 'Café du Monde' becomes 'cafe-du-monde'. With unicode preserved, non-Latin scripts (Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic) survive — useful for localised CMS slugs where modern browsers and search engines handle Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs).
+−How long should a URL slug be?
Aim for under 60-70 characters. Long slugs get truncated in search results and look messy when shared. Set the 'Max length' control to your target — the tool clips on word boundaries so slugs never end with a stray hyphen.
+−Can I generate slugs in bulk for a CSV import?
Yes. Switch to 'Bulk' mode, paste one title per line, and copy all generated slugs as a newline-separated list — paste straight into a CSV column or a CMS bulk-import field.
+−Is the input sent to a server?
No. The generator runs entirely in your browser — your titles, drafts, and product names never leave your device.