Free online tool
URL Slug Generator
Type or paste a title and get a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug.
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable way. In example.com/blog/how-to-write-a-slug, the slug is how-to-write-a-slug. Clean slugs improve SEO because keywords in the URL are a small ranking signal and because readers are more likely to click and share a URL that clearly describes the content.
How this tool works
It normalizes accented characters, lowercases everything, replaces spaces and punctuation with single hyphens, and trims any leading or trailing hyphens. The result is a slug that will work in nearly any CMS.
Slug best practices
Keep slugs short (3–5 words is ideal), include your primary keyword, avoid stop words like "the" and "of" where possible, and never change a published slug without setting up a redirect — otherwise inbound links break.
+Are underscores OK instead of hyphens?
Google recommends hyphens. Search engines treat hyphens as word separators; underscores are treated as part of the word.
+Does it support non-Latin characters?
It strips diacritics from Latin letters (é → e). For scripts like Cyrillic or Chinese, you'll need transliteration first.
Why use the URL Slug Generator on ToolNest?
The URL Slug Generator is one of more than forty free browser-based utilities we maintain on ToolNest. Every tool on the site is engineered around the same three promises: it must be fast, it must protect your privacy, and it must be genuinely useful without hiding features behind an account, a paywall, or an email capture form. Whether you use the URL Slug Generatoronce a month or several times a day, it should feel like a native part of your workflow — open the tab, get the result, move on.
Everything happens directly inside your web browser. When you type, paste, or upload something into the URL Slug Generator, that data never leaves your device. There is no server round-trip, no logging, no analytics pixel watching your keystrokes, and no third-party API silently receiving a copy of your input. Closing the browser tab is the same as clearing your session. This is a deliberate design choice: too many free "online tools" quietly funnel user content through remote servers, and we do not think a utility as small as this one justifies that risk.
Speed is the other pillar. The URL Slug Generator loads on a cold connection in well under a second and stays responsive on older phones, low-power laptops, and metered mobile networks. There are no heavy frameworks layered on top of the tool, no autoplay video ads, and no blocking third-party scripts. Search engines like Google reward pages that load quickly and stay interactive, but more importantly, so do human visitors who came here to get one specific job done.
If the URL Slug Generator saves you time, the best thing you can do is bookmark this page and share it with a colleague or classmate who might need it. We also welcome direct feedback — bug reports, feature requests, and suggestions for entirely new tools all go to the same inbox and are read by a human. The best tools on ToolNest started life as a one-line reader email, and this page will keep improving as long as people keep telling us what they wish it did better.