Does this upload my titles?

No. Slug generation is pure JS string transformation in your browser. Your titles never touch a server.

Why dashes and not underscores?

Search engines (per Google docs) treat dashes as word separators but underscores as joiners. `hello-world` ranks as two words; `hello_world` ranks as one. Dashes are the SEO default.

How does it handle accented or non-Latin characters?

Accented Latin → bare letter (café → cafe, naïve → naive). Currency / symbols dropped. CJK characters that have no ASCII fallback are dropped, so titles entirely in Chinese yield empty slugs — for those, add an English subtitle.

What's the max-length option for?

Many CMSs (WordPress default 200, Shopify 100) cap slug length. Hard-cap your slug here so it round-trips cleanly. We cut at the last dash before the limit, never mid-word.

Can I slugify a whole CSV column or sitemap at once?

Yes. Paste up to a few thousand titles, one per line, and you get one slug per line in the same order. Copy the output column straight back into your spreadsheet next to the source titles. For example, 600 blog headlines paste in and 600 slugs come out, so you can bulk-fill a `slug` column before importing to WordPress, instead of clicking through each post.

Bulk-slug 200 blog headlines before a WordPress import

You exported 200 draft headlines from a content sheet and need a slug per row before the WXR import. Paste the column, one title per line, and get 200 lowercase dash slugs in the same order. Drop them back next to the titles, and the import maps each post to a clean permalink instead of WordPress auto-truncating mid-word.

Stop accented product names from breaking permalinks

A Shopify catalog has names like "Crème Brûlée Candle" and "Açaí Bowl Mix". Typed straight into a handle, the accents get percent-encoded and links look broken in emails. Paste the names here and you get creme-brulee-candle and acai-bowl-mix, ASCII-safe, so the URLs render cleanly everywhere and stay readable in share previews.

Match an existing site's underscore-free slug style

Your dev team standardized on dash slugs capped at 60 chars, but a freelancer kept submitting under_scored ones. Set the separator to a dash and max length to 60, paste the batch, and every slug now matches house style. The cut lands on the last dash before 60, so no word ever gets sliced in half and the URLs stay scannable.

Generate anchor IDs for a long docs page table of contents

A docs page has 30 H2 headings and you want stable #anchor IDs for the sidebar links. Paste all 30 heading texts, copy the slug column, and wire each to its `id`. "Set Up the API Key" becomes set-up-the-api-key, so the TOC links survive copy-edits to the visible heading text without quietly breaking every deep link.

URL Slug Generator — Clean, Lowercase, Dash-Separated, ASCII-safe

Turn any title into a clean URL slug — lowercase, dashes, ASCII-safe transliteration, multiline batch — browser-only

Runs locally
Category Text
Best for Removing repetitive cleanup work from everyday writing and operations.

SeparatorMax lengthLowercase

Title(s) — one per line for batch

Slug(s)

What this tool does

Free online URL slug generator. Paste a title (or many titles, one per line) and instantly get clean, lowercase, dash-separated, ASCII-safe slugs ready for permalinks. Transliterates accented characters (café → cafe), strips emoji, handles CJK (pinyin-free fallback to ASCII letters where present, drop otherwise). Customisable separator and max length. 100% client-side.

Tool details

Input: Text + Numbers; The page exposes text boxes, numeric controls, file pickers, or structured inputs depending on the tool.
Output: Live result + Copy; The result area focuses on usable output, with copy, download, or preview actions when supported.
Privacy: Browser-side processing; The main tool logic does not call an external API, so inputs normally stay in the current tab.
Save / share: No account required; Open the page and use it; whether results survive refresh depends on the tool.
Performance budget: Initial JS <= 6 KB; No WASM budget is declared, keeping the tool quick to open on mobile.
Best fit: Text · Marketer; Category and role tags drive related tools, internal links, and quick fit checks.

How to use

1. Input

Paste or drop your content into the tool panel.
2. Process

Click the button. All processing is local in your browser.
3. Copy / Download

Copy the result or download to disk in one click.

How URL Slug Generator fits into your work

Use it to clean, compare, reshape, or extract plain text before it goes into a document, CMS, spreadsheet, or prompt.

Text jobs

Removing repetitive cleanup work from everyday writing and operations.
Making text easier to compare, paste, publish, or feed into another tool.
Working with content locally when the text is private or unfinished.

Text checks

Scan for unintended whitespace, duplicate lines, and lost punctuation.
For long text, test the first few lines before applying the whole change.
Copy the final output only after checking the preview.

Good next steps

These links move the current task into a more complete workflow.

Real-world use cases

Bulk-slug 200 blog headlines before a WordPress import
You exported 200 draft headlines from a content sheet and need a slug per row before the WXR import. Paste the column, one title per line, and get 200 lowercase dash slugs in the same order. Drop them back next to the titles, and the import maps each post to a clean permalink instead of WordPress auto-truncating mid-word.
Stop accented product names from breaking permalinks
A Shopify catalog has names like "Crème Brûlée Candle" and "Açaí Bowl Mix". Typed straight into a handle, the accents get percent-encoded and links look broken in emails. Paste the names here and you get creme-brulee-candle and acai-bowl-mix, ASCII-safe, so the URLs render cleanly everywhere and stay readable in share previews.
Match an existing site's underscore-free slug style
Your dev team standardized on dash slugs capped at 60 chars, but a freelancer kept submitting under_scored ones. Set the separator to a dash and max length to 60, paste the batch, and every slug now matches house style. The cut lands on the last dash before 60, so no word ever gets sliced in half and the URLs stay scannable.
Generate anchor IDs for a long docs page table of contents
A docs page has 30 H2 headings and you want stable #anchor IDs for the sidebar links. Paste all 30 heading texts, copy the slug column, and wire each to its `id`. "Set Up the API Key" becomes set-up-the-api-key, so the TOC links survive copy-edits to the visible heading text without quietly breaking every deep link.

Common pitfalls

Pasting fully-Chinese or emoji-only titles and expecting a slug. CJK with no ASCII fallback is dropped, so "新品上市" yields an empty slug. Add an English subtitle like "new-arrivals" so the line produces something.
Setting max length too short and chopping meaning. A 20-char cap turns "annual-financial-report-2025" into "annual-financial", losing the year. Pick a cap that fits your CMS (200 for WordPress) rather than an arbitrary small one.
Switching the separator to an underscore "for readability". Google treats hello_world as one token, so you lose the two-word match. Keep dashes unless a legacy system literally requires underscores.

Privacy

Every title you paste is transliterated and slugified by plain JavaScript string operations in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or sent to any server, and the titles never appear in a URL or query parameter. Closing the tab clears everything. You can safely run unreleased product names or internal headlines through it.

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URL Slug Generator — Clean, Lowercase, Dash-Separated, ASCII-safe

What this tool does

Tool details

How to use

1. Input

2. Process

3. Copy / Download

How URL Slug Generator fits into your work

Text jobs

Text checks

Good next steps

Real-world use cases

Bulk-slug 200 blog headlines before a WordPress import

Stop accented product names from breaking permalinks

Match an existing site's underscore-free slug style

Generate anchor IDs for a long docs page table of contents

Common pitfalls

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