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URL Slug Generator

Turn a heading into a URL-friendly slug: lowercase, hyphen-separated, without unsafe punctuation.

How to use

  1. Paste the page title or heading.
  2. Generate the slug. Accents such as å, ä and ö become ASCII letters.
  3. Copy the result into your CMS or file name. Check that the path is not already used on your site.

How it works

A URL slug is the readable path segment after the domain — the part people see and sometimes type. Readable slugs help humans scan a link and keep the path stable when the page title later changes in a heading.

A good slug is short, lowercase and hyphen-separated: free-url-slug-generator. A poor slug keeps punctuation, spaces or a query string (Free_URL!!! or page?id=123).

This tool lowercases the text, decomposes Latin letters with Unicode NFD, and strips combining marks so Göteborg becomes goteborg and å, ä, ö become a, a, o.

Whitespace and punctuation become a single hyphen; repeated separators collapse; leading and trailing hyphens are trimmed. Remaining Unicode letters and numbers are kept — there is no Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Arabic romanization.

If nothing letter-like remains, you get an error instead of an empty path.

Formula

NFD → strip combining marks → lowercase
non-letters/numbers → -
collapse and trim hyphens

Worked examples

  • English title — good slug

    Free QR Code Generator → free-qr-code-generator

  • Swedish city

    Göteborg → goteborg

  • Repeated spaces and punctuation

    Hello, world!!! → hello-world

Useful notes

  • Transliteration is Latin-diacritic only (including Swedish). Other scripts are not romanized.
  • This does not check whether the slug is already used on a site.
  • Slug generation runs in your browser.

FAQ

What is a URL slug?

The readable segment of a path, such as /guides/what-is-url-encoding. It is not the full URL and not a query string.

Why use a readable slug?

People can guess and remember the path, and you can keep the slug when the on-page heading changes. Opaque IDs still work; they are just harder to scan.

How are å, ä and ö handled?

They are decomposed and the marks are removed: å→a, ä→a, ö→o. Göteborg becomes goteborg.

Do you transliterate every language?

No. Only Latin diacritics are flattened to ASCII. Other letter scripts stay as themselves; they are not turned into pinyin or similar.

Is the title uploaded?

No. Slug generation runs in your browser.

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