Slug Generator

A slug is the readable last part of a web address: the “creme-brulee-recipe” in example.com/blog/creme-brulee-recipe. Blogs, shops and content systems build one from each page title, and a good one is short, lower case, free of odd symbols and easy to read aloud. This tool writes it for you as you type, and shows the full address if you tell it where the page will live.

It does the fiddly parts properly. Accents are taken off (é becomes e), letters with no accent to remove are spelled out (ß becomes ss, ø becomes o, Ł becomes L), and Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian and Greek are written in Latin letters, so “Київ” gives kyiv and “Αθήνα” gives athina. Apostrophes vanish rather than leaving a gap, so “Don’t Stop” is dont-stop. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi have no single agreed Latin spelling, so you choose whether to keep them or leave them out.

For a site migration or a spreadsheet of product names, paste one title per line. Every line gets its slug, repeats are numbered -2, -3 so no two pages clash, and the lot can be copied or saved as a CSV. All of it runs in your browser.

1. Type or paste a title into the “Title” box, or press “Paste”. Put several titles on separate lines to make many slugs at once.
2. Pick a separator (hyphen, underscore or dot) and tick the options you want: lower case, “Remove stop words”, “Number repeats” or German-style umlauts.
3. Set “Max length” if your system has a limit. The slug is cut at the last whole word that fits.
4. Open “More options” to edit the custom replacements or add the address the page will sit under.
5. Press “Copy” for one slug. For a list, use “Copy all”, the copy button on any row, or “CSV” to save a spreadsheet.

• Live slug as you type, with its length, word count and the full address preview.
• Accents removed and special letters spelled out: ß → ss, æ → ae, œ → oe, ø → o, ł → l, þ → th, đ → d, and Vietnamese tone marks dropped.
• Russian, Ukrainian (Київ → kyiv), Belarusian, Serbian and Greek letters written in Latin, including Greek pairs like ου → ou.
• Optional German style for umlauts: “Größe Über” becomes groesse-ueber instead of grosse-uber.
• Keep or remove Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi and other letters with no Latin spelling. Emoji and symbols are always removed.
• Hyphen, underscore or dot separators, a lower case switch and a stop-word filter covering about 40 common English words.
• Maximum length that cuts at word boundaries, and still fits when a -2 is added to a repeat.
• Custom replacements, one per line, such as & = and or C++ = cpp, applied before everything else.
• Bulk mode for any number of lines, with repeat numbering that never reuses a slug already in your list, copy all, and CSV export that opens cleanly in Excel and Google Sheets.
• Your options are remembered on this device for next time.

• Use hyphens for web pages. Google reads a hyphen as a space between words, while underscores can glue words together.
• Shorter is better: three to six meaningful words is plenty. Stop-word removal and a max length of around 50–60 get you there quickly.
• Once a page is live, leave its slug alone. Changing it breaks old links and bookmarks unless you set up a redirect from the old address.
• Symbols such as C++ or C# lose their + and #. Add a replacement like “C# = csharp” so the meaning survives.
• If your site is in Chinese or Japanese, keeping the characters is fine: modern browsers show them in the address bar, though they become long %-codes when copied.