URL Slug Generator

This tool converts your text into a URL slug: everything lowercased, spaces turned into hyphens, punctuation stripped, and extra hyphens collapsed. 'How to Bake Bread' becomes how-to-bake-bread.

Slugs are the readable part of a URL that identifies a page — the /how-to-bake-bread in example.com/blog/how-to-bake-bread. A good slug is short, descriptive, and uses the words people search for.

The output is capped at a sensible length, because long slugs are truncated in search results and are harder to read and share.

The tool processes your text in a series of local transformations: lowercase everything, remove characters that don't belong in URLs, convert whitespace runs to single hyphens, collapse repeated hyphens, and trim hyphens from the ends.

The result is truncated to the recommended maximum length. All of this is string processing in the browser — no request is made to any server.

The output is a clean slug you can paste directly into your URL structure.

A URL slug is the final, human-readable segment of a URL path. Good slugs are lowercase (URLs are case-sensitive on most servers), use hyphens between words (the convention search engines and readers prefer over underscores), and avoid punctuation and stop words where possible.

The transformations this tool applies mirror those conventions: lowercasing, stripping characters outside the URL-safe set, converting whitespace to hyphens, and collapsing repeats.

One practical note: changing an existing page's slug changes its URL, so existing links and search listings break unless redirects are set up. Slug choice matters most at page creation — that is when this tool is most useful.