URL Slug Generator

Browser-local slug tool

Use URL Slug Generator

Normalize spacing and punctuation, choose a separator, and decide whether non-Latin letters should remain.

Title or label

SeparatorKeep non-Latin letters and numbers

Generated slug

Create a clean lowercase slug from a title or label.

cafe-file-tools-fast-private

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About URL Slug Generator

A slug is the readable path segment that identifies a page, article, product, or record. Good slugs are stable, concise, and predictable; they are not a substitute for page quality or a magical ranking signal. This generator lowercases a title, normalizes accented Latin letters, replaces punctuation and whitespace with one chosen separator, and trims separators from both ends. Hyphens are the conventional URL choice, while underscores can suit filenames or internal keys. By default the output is ASCII for broad compatibility. A Unicode option preserves non-Latin letters and numbers instead of erasing meaningful Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, or other script content. Everything updates locally while you type.

Work through the input

The input is normalized with Unicode compatibility decomposition. Combining accents are removed, so café becomes cafe in ASCII mode. Compatibility characters that have standard decompositions become more predictable before punctuation cleanup.
ASCII mode keeps lowercase a-z and digits, replacing every other run with a hyphen or underscore. Repeated spaces and punctuation collapse into one separator, and leading or trailing separators are removed.
Preserve Unicode mode keeps letters and numbers from any script while applying the same separator rules. Browsers percent-encode these characters on the wire, but modern interfaces can display the readable form. Choose this only when the site's URL policy supports internationalized paths consistently.
The tool does not truncate or deduplicate the result because it does not know your content system. A production CMS should enforce maximum length, uniqueness, reserved words, and redirects when an existing slug changes.
Copy places the generated value on the clipboard. No URL is created, checked, registered, or published. The page merely transforms the text you provide and stores no history.

When url slug generator is useful

Accented product title

Café File Tools: Fast & Private becomes cafe-file-tools-fast-private with the default ASCII and hyphen settings.

Japanese article path

With Unicode preservation enabled, 東京ファイル becomes 東京-ファイル instead of an empty ASCII result.

Check the output

Changing a live page slug changes its URL. Preserve the old address with a permanent redirect, update internal links and canonical tags, and avoid repeated slug edits after search engines have indexed the page.
ASCII normalization is not full transliteration. Scripts without ASCII equivalents disappear when Unicode preservation is off, and some letters do not decompose into an English approximation. Review the result rather than assuming every language can be romanized automatically.
A readable slug can improve usability, but keyword stuffing does not create authority. Keep only words that identify the resource, and let the page title, content, links, and usefulness carry the search intent.

Questions about URL Slug Generator

Should URLs use hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens are the common public-URL convention. Underscores remain available for systems or filenames whose established policy requires them.

Are Unicode slugs valid?

Modern browsers support international characters and encode them for transport, but your framework, database, redirects, and analytics must handle them consistently.

Will this make a page rank higher?

A concise descriptive URL helps people understand a page, but the slug alone cannot replace useful content, authority, crawlability, or intent satisfaction.

Does generating a slug publish or reserve it?

No. It is a local text transformation only. Your website or CMS must check uniqueness and create the actual route.