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Slugify String

Convert any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug - strips accents and special characters, and replaces spaces with your chosen separator.

Category: web
Use Case: Generating Blog Post URLs, Creating File-System-Safe Names, Building SEO-Friendly Page Slugs
Privacy: 100% browser-based

Separator

hello-world-this-is-a-test-cafe-post

Recommended Settings

Pro Tips

  • Accented characters are automatically converted to their closest plain ASCII equivalent - 'Café' becomes 'cafe', not stripped entirely
  • Any character that isn't a letter, digit, space, or existing dash is removed entirely, keeping the slug clean and URL-safe
  • Dashes are the most common and SEO-conventional separator for URLs, while underscores are sometimes preferred for file names or code identifiers
  • Multiple consecutive spaces or dashes are collapsed into a single separator, avoiding awkward double-dash artifacts

Most Popular

Most people use a lowercase dash-separated slug, which is the standard convention for blog post and page URLs

When to Use This Tool

Generating Blog Post URLs

Turn an article title into a clean URL slug for your CMS or static site.

Creating File-System-Safe Names

Convert a title or label into a filename-safe string with no special characters.

Building SEO-Friendly Page Slugs

Create readable, keyword-friendly URL slugs that search engines and users can easily parse.

Sanitizing User Input for Identifiers

Convert free-text input into a safe identifier for use as a key, tag, or slug.

How It Works

1

Normalize the text and strip diacritical marks so accented letters become their plain equivalents

2

Remove any remaining character that isn't a letter, digit, space, or dash

3

Trim whitespace and replace remaining spaces and dashes with your chosen separator, collapsing repeats

100% Private

Files never leave your device. All processing happens locally in your browser.

Lightning Fast

Powered by Client-side Unicode normalization and text processing for optimal performance on modern browsers.

Open Source

Built with verified, open-source libraries. Fully transparent.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to accented characters like é or ñ?

They're converted to their closest plain ASCII equivalent (é becomes e, ñ becomes n) using Unicode normalization, rather than being stripped out entirely.

What happens to emoji or non-Latin scripts?

Characters outside the basic Latin letters and digits are removed, since they generally don't produce readable, URL-safe slugs.

Should I use a dash or underscore?

Dashes are the SEO and web convention for URLs, since search engines treat them as word separators. Underscores are more common for filenames or programming identifiers.

Is my text sent anywhere?

No. All processing happens locally in your browser.