Text to Slug

How do I turn a title into a URL slug online?

Type or paste your title into AnyTool Text to Slug. It instantly builds a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug — lowercasing the text, transliterating accented and Unicode letters to ASCII (cafe, naive, uber), splitting camelCase, replacing spaces and punctuation with a hyphen, and collapsing repeated separators. A batch mode turns each line into its own slug. Everything runs in your browser, so your text is never uploaded.

Live slug and a sample URL preview as you type — no convert button
Transliterates accents and many Unicode letters: e for accented e, n for n-tilde, ss for the German sharp s, plus best-effort Cyrillic and Greek
Choose hyphen, underscore, dot, none or a custom separator
Optional lowercase, camelCase splitting, stop-word removal, file-extension stripping and word-boundary max length
Batch mode: one input line becomes one slug per line — 100% client-side

What is

A slug generator converts a title or phrase into a URL-friendly string by lowercasing it, transliterating accented and non-Latin letters to ASCII, replacing spaces and punctuation with a single separator such as a hyphen, and trimming repeated or edge separators, producing a readable permalink for blogs, products and pages.

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Related terms

URL SlugPermalinkSlugifySEO-friendly URL

Frequently Asked Questions

Every slug is built locally in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no tracking, and the page works offline after the first load — so you can safely slugify confidential titles, drafts or product names.

No upload happens. All slug generation runs in your browser, so your text never leaves your device and the tool works offline.

A URL slug is the human-readable segment of a web address that identifies a page, such as how-to-make-coffee. Clean slugs that use real words, hyphens between them and no accents or special characters are easier to read, share and crawl. AnyTool keeps slugs lowercase, ASCII-only and free of duplicate separators by default.

A slug is the readable part of a URL after the domain. Short, keyword-rich slugs are easier for people and search engines to read.

Accented Latin letters are mapped to their base letters and a few expand to multiple letters, such as the German sharp s becoming ss and the ae and oe ligatures. Cyrillic and Greek are romanised on a best-effort basis. Any remaining combining marks are stripped via Unicode normalisation, so the resulting slug is always plain ASCII.

It transliterates them to the nearest ASCII letters, so cafe, naive and uber come out cleanly, with best-effort Cyrillic and Greek romanisation.

Batch mode slugifies every line independently — paste a list of post titles or product names and the tool returns one slug per line, live as you type. It also reports how many slugs were produced, how many are duplicates and the longest length, and you can copy the whole list or download it as a .txt file.

Yes. Turn on batch mode and each line of your input becomes its own slug on its own line, ready to copy or download.

Detailed Explanation

Methodology

How the Text to Slug Tool Works

AnyTool Text to Slug builds a URL slug entirely in the browser through a fixed pipeline. It optionally strips a trailing file extension, splits camelCase and PascalCase humps and letter-digit boundaries, transliterates accented and Unicode letters to ASCII using a built-in map, then NFKD-normalises and removes any remaining combining marks. The text is lowercased (toggleable) and every run of characters outside a-z and 0-9 is replaced with the chosen separator. Finally repeated and edge separators are collapsed and trimmed, and an optional maximum length truncates the slug at a word boundary.

Transliteration map covers accented Latin plus best-effort Cyrillic and Greek
Multi-letter expansions: the German sharp s becomes ss, ae and oe ligatures expand
camelCase and PascalCase are split so getUserProfile becomes get-user-profile
Separator is configurable: hyphen, underscore, dot, none or custom
Repeated and leading/trailing separators are collapsed and trimmed
Optional max length cuts at the last separator boundary, never mid-word
All processing is client-side JavaScript — no server round-trip

How It Works

Options, Batch Mode and SEO

Beyond the separator, the tool can keep or fold case, remove common English stop-words such as a, the, of and and, and strip a trailing file extension like .html or .png. A live sample URL preview shows the slug in context (example.com/your-slug), which helps writers see the final permalink. Batch mode slugifies each input line independently and reports how many slugs were produced, how many are duplicates, and the longest length — useful when bulk-generating permalinks for posts or products. Short, hyphen-separated, lowercase, ASCII-only slugs are the widely recommended SEO format.

Optional removal of common English stop-words to shorten slugs
Optional stripping of a trailing file extension
Live sample URL preview shows the slug as a real permalink
Batch mode: one input line becomes one slug per line
Stats report slug count, duplicates and the longest slug length

Privacy & Security

Privacy and Offline Use

Because all slug generation runs in the browser, the text never reaches a server, there is no account or tracking, and the page works offline after first load. Large inputs are debounced so the editor stays responsive, and results can be copied or downloaded as a .txt file. This makes it safe to slugify confidential titles, draft headlines or unreleased product names.

Slug generation: in-browser (AnyTool) vs typical online slug tools
Capability	AnyTool	Typical online slug tools
Text handling	Processed in your browser	Often posted to a server
Privacy	Text never leaves device	May log or store submitted text
Transliteration	Accents + best-effort Cyrillic/Greek	Often accents only or none
camelCase splitting	Yes	Rarely offered
Separator choice	Hyphen, underscore, dot, none, custom	Usually hyphen only
Batch mode	Yes, one slug per line	Sometimes single input only
Max length at word boundary	Yes	Uncommon
Works offline	Yes (PWA)	No
Cost / signup	Free, no signup	Often ad-heavy or gated

Server-based slug tools can retain pasted text in logs; AnyTool builds every slug locally and uploads nothing.