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Slug Generator

Title to URL slug with diacritic transliteration.

beats slugify.online edge: Diacritic transliterate + stopword strip + max-len
title
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slug
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About Slug Generator

Convert any title to a clean URL slug. NFD diacritic stripping handles é → e, ø → o, ß → ss, č → c. Optional stopword removal trims "the", "a", "of". Choose separator (hyphen, underscore, dot), cap max length, run a list of titles in batch. Output stays ASCII-safe and lowercase by default.

What a slug is

The URL-safe variant of a title. Building a Better Mousetrap becomes building-a-better-mousetrap. Designed to be:

  • Readable — the URL still communicates the page’s topic
  • ASCII-safe — survives every browser and server cleanly
  • Lowercase — case-insensitive matching, no surprises
  • Short — fits in tweets, emails, and Google’s 50-60 char display
  • SEO-friendly — keywords appear in the URL, indexed for search

Done well, slugs are a small but consistent ranking signal and a major UX win — sharable, memorable, typeable.

What this generator does

  1. Lowercase
  2. Apply Unicode NFD decomposition, drop combining marks (é → e)
  3. Transliterate non-Latin where supported (Greek, Cyrillic, common CJK)
  4. Replace remaining non-ASCII with the separator
  5. Optionally strip stopwords
  6. Collapse repeated separators
  7. Trim to max length without breaking a word

Common workflows

Generate slugs for blog posts. Paste a list of titles, hit batch mode, copy the column. Useful when migrating a CMS.

Build canonical URLs for marketing pages. Title comes from the campaign brief; slug becomes the URL. Stopword removal helps for ad copy.

Stable identifiers for filenames. Apply slug rules to a project name, get a folder name that survives any OS.

Match incoming URLs to records. Slug a normalized title in the same way both at write time and lookup time. The two will match.

Why diacritic stripping matters

/café is technically a valid URL, but URL encoding turns it into /caf%C3%A9 in headers and analytics. Half the systems handle it, half do not. Strip the diacritic at slug time and the URL is clean everywhere — search results, share buttons, server logs.

Frequently asked questions

What is "diacritic transliteration"?
Decomposing a character with a diacritical mark into its base letter plus the mark, then dropping the mark. Done via Unicode NFD normalization. café becomes cafe; no information is lost in the meaningful sense.
How are non-Latin scripts handled?
For Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and CJK we transliterate using common conventions — привет becomes privet. CJK transliteration is approximate (Pinyin for Chinese, Hepburn for Japanese, Revised for Korean) and sometimes a human review is worth doing.
Should I strip stopwords?
For SEO, mostly yes — slugs read cleaner. But when stopwords carry meaning ("the matrix" vs "matrix") keep them. The tool makes it a toggle, not a rule.
What is a sensible max length?
40-60 characters works on most platforms. Very long slugs are harder to share, harder to type, and Google truncates them in results anyway. Drop articles, drop minor adjectives, get below 60.
Can it generate unique slugs?
Slugs are derived from titles, so two same titles produce the same slug. For uniqueness, append a short hash or counter — try a 6-character random suffix from the Random String tool.
Is the tool URL-safe by default?
Yes. Output contains only a-z, 0-9, and the chosen separator. Never a slash, dot, space, or non-ASCII character.

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Last updated: 2025-01-15