Convert text to clean, URL-friendly slugs
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Convert any text to clean, URL-friendly slugs. Handle special characters, accents, and spaces. Free SEO tool. This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data is sent to any server. It's fast, free, and works on any device.
URL slugs are the human-readable part of a web address — the 'text-to-slug-generator' in wootils.com/tools/text-to-slug-generator. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens as separators, contain only ASCII characters, and are concise. This tool converts any text into a clean, URL-safe slug by lowercasing, replacing spaces with hyphens, removing special characters, and transliterating accented characters (é→e, ü→u, ñ→n). SEO experts recommend slugs that include keywords, are 3-5 words long, and avoid stop words (the, a, an, of). Every CMS generates slugs, but having a standalone tool helps when planning URL structures, creating file names, or building database keys.
Google treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as word joiners. 'text-to-slug' is read as three words; 'text_to_slug' as one. For SEO, hyphens are strongly preferred in URLs.
Accented characters are transliterated to ASCII equivalents: é→e, ü→u, ñ→n, ß→ss, ø→o, etc. This ensures the slug works in all browsers and systems without encoding issues.
Everything except letters, numbers, and the separator character. Punctuation (!@#$%&), special symbols, quotes, and other non-alphanumeric characters are stripped. This produces clean, safe URLs.
Google displays about 50-60 characters in URLs. Aim for 3-5 meaningful words. Remove stop words (the, a, and, of, to) unless they're essential for meaning. Shorter, descriptive slugs perform better.
Absolutely — slugs make excellent file names. They're OS-safe (no special characters), human-readable, and sortable. Many developers use slug-format naming for assets, images, and data files.