How To Slugify Text

What Is Slugify Text?

Slugify Text turns a title into a clean URL slug. It strips accents to plain letters, lowercases everything, and replaces spaces and punctuation with single hyphens. "My First Post!" becomes "my-first-post". Paste a list and you get one slug per line.

Why Clean Slugs Matter

A URL slug is the readable tail of a web address, like "how-to-slugify-text", and the slug is only that final segment, not the full URL path with its domain and folders. What makes a slug SEO-friendly is being short, lowercase, and keyword-bearing: such a permalink is easy to read, easy to share, and gives search engines a clear signal about the page. Slugs full of spaces, capital letters, or symbols get percent-encoded into noise and look untrustworthy in search results, which is why a url slug generator folds them to web-safe text.

How It Works

For each line the tool decomposes accented letters and removes the accent marks, lowercases the result, replaces every run of non-alphanumeric characters with one hyphen, and trims any hyphens from the ends. "Crème Brûlée Recipe" becomes "creme-brulee-recipe".

This tool is free and runs online entirely in your browser. Your text stays on your device, protecting your privacy: nothing is uploaded to a server, and results appear instantly.

Examples

A blog title. For example, input: My First Post!. Output: my-first-post, a permalink ready to paste into a CMS.

Accents folded. For example, this text to slug step turns Crème Brûlée Recipe into creme-brulee-recipe, stripping accents to plain ASCII.

A whole list at once. For example, paste ten titles and the slug generator returns ten slugs, one per line, so a permalink generator run covers a full batch.

Common Mistakes

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