Slugify Text
Turn any text into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug.
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What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a page, such as "how-to-slugify-text" in /guide/how-to-slugify-text. A good slug is lowercase, uses hyphens between words, and contains only letters and numbers.
How does slugify handle accents and symbols?
Accented letters are converted to their plain ASCII base first, so "Café" becomes "cafe". Every run of spaces, punctuation, or other symbols is replaced with a single hyphen, and leading or trailing hyphens are trimmed.
Can I slugify a whole list at once?
Yes. Each line is turned into its own slug, so you can paste a list of titles and get one slug per line back. This is handy for generating permalinks for many posts at once.
What makes a URL slug SEO-friendly?
An SEO-friendly slug is short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, and built from the keywords a searcher would actually type. For example, a post titled "10 Easy Pasta Recipes for Busy Weeknights" ranks and reads better as "easy-pasta-recipes" than as the full title with numbers and filler words. Readable, keyword-bearing slugs earn more clicks in search results, are easier to share, and give search engines a clear, stable signal about the page topic.
What is the difference between slugify and kebab-case?
Slugify builds URL-safe slugs: it strips accents to plain ASCII, lowercases everything, and removes any character that is not a letter or number. Kebab-case is a code formatting style for identifiers such as CSS class names and config keys, and it hyphenates words without folding accents away. For example, slugify turns "Crème Brûlée Recipe!" into "creme-brulee-recipe", while a kebab-case pass keeps the è and û intact. Use slugify for permalinks and kebab-case for code.
Is a slug the same as the URL path?
No. The slug is only the final readable segment of an address, while the path is everything after the domain, including parent folders. For example, in toytoolsapp.com/guide/text/how-to-slugify-text/, the path is /guide/text/how-to-slugify-text/ and the slug is just how-to-slugify-text. When a CMS asks for a slug, it wants that last segment alone; the rest of the path is built for you from the site structure.
Does slugify keep accented characters like é or ü?
No, slugify folds accented characters to their unaccented ASCII form by design. For example, "Crème Brûlée Recipe!" becomes "creme-brulee-recipe": è and û fold to e and u, and the exclamation mark disappears. Accented characters inside a URL get percent-encoded into strings like %C3%A8, which are unreadable and easy to mistype, so a slug limited to a-z and 0-9 stays shareable everywhere.
Why does slugify make everything lowercase?
Slugify lowercases every letter by design because URL paths are case-sensitive on many web servers. If /My-Post and /my-post both resolve, search engines can treat them as two separate pages with duplicated content, splitting ranking signals between them. For example, "10 JavaScript Tips" always becomes "10-javascript-tips", never "10-JavaScript-Tips". Publishing every slug in one consistent lowercase form removes that ambiguity, so there is no option here to preserve capitals.
Is it safe to paste titles into an online slug generator?
This slug generator runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded to a server. The slugify step is plain JavaScript executed on your device, and results appear as you type. For example, you can paste a full list of unpublished post titles for a client project and generate their permalinks without any of that text leaving your machine.