# URL Slug Generator

Canonical URL: https://offlineutils.com/url-slug-generator
Category: Text & Content
Published: 2026-07-05
Publisher: offlineutils.com
Runs entirely in the browser; nothing entered into the tool is uploaded.

> A URL Slug Generator converts a title or phrase into a clean, URL-safe slug — lowercased, with accents stripped and spaces and punctuation replaced by a single separator — entirely in your browser.

Paste a headline, product name, or any phrase and get a tidy slug you can drop straight into a URL, filename, or anchor id. Accented characters are transliterated (café becomes cafe), symbols are removed, and runs of spaces or punctuation collapse to one hyphen (or underscore). Paste multiple lines to slugify a whole list at once. Everything runs locally — nothing is uploaded.

## Features

- Transliterates accented characters to ASCII
- Choose hyphen or underscore separator
- Optional lowercasing
- Collapses repeated separators and trims the edges
- Bulk mode — one slug per input line
- Runs entirely in your browser — nothing uploaded

## Use cases

- Creating SEO-friendly blog post permalinks
- Generating safe filenames from titles
- Building anchor ids from headings
- Slugifying a whole list of categories or tags at once

## How to use it

1. **Paste your text** — Enter a title or a list of titles, one per line.
2. **Pick options** — Choose the separator and whether to lowercase.
3. **Copy the slug** — Copy the generated slug (or all slugs) with one click.

## When to use it, and when to use something else

- **vs A CMS's built-in slug field** — use URL Slug Generator when you want to preview or bulk-generate slugs outside the CMS. Use A CMS's built-in slug field when your CMS already slugs on save and you're happy with it.
- **vs Writing a slugify regex by hand** — use URL Slug Generator when you want accent handling and options without the boilerplate. Use Writing a slugify regex by hand when you need slugging inside your own build pipeline.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is a URL slug?

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like 'url-slug-generator' in this page's address. Good slugs are short, lowercase, and use hyphens between words so they're readable and SEO-friendly.

### How are accented or non-Latin characters handled?

Accented Latin characters are transliterated to their closest ASCII form (e-acute becomes e, n-tilde becomes n) via Unicode normalization. Characters with no ASCII equivalent are dropped, so the slug stays URL-safe.

### Should I use hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens are the SEO convention — search engines treat hyphens as word separators but underscores as joiners. Use hyphens for public URLs; underscores are offered for filenames or ids where you prefer them.

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