Slugify Text

Convert text to SEO‑friendly URL slugs

Quickly turn titles, filenames, or product names into clean, lowercase URL slugs. PicoToolkit’s Slugify produces hyphenated, SEO‑friendly slugs in your browser — no upload required.

How to use

• Paste or type the text you want to convert (single line or multiple lines).
• Click Transform → Slugify. The tool shows the slugified result you can copy or download.
• Prepare input first with other PicoToolkit tools (remove diacritics, punctuation, or extra spaces) if you need a specific normalization workflow.

Slug rules (exact behavior)

• Lowercase: all output is converted to lowercase (A→a).
• Transliteration / diacritics: accents and diacritics are removed (e.g., résumé → resume).
• Allowed characters: a–z, 0–9 and hyphen (-) only. All other characters are removed or replaced.
• Separator: spaces and other separators are replaced with a single hyphen.
• Collapse duplicates: consecutive separators/hyphens collapse into a single hyphen.
• Trim: leading and trailing hyphens are removed from the final slug.
• Script support: only Latin languages are supported; non‑Latin scripts are not transliterated.

Common use cases

• Create CMS-friendly post or page slugs from titles.
• Generate consistent product slugs for e‑commerce URLs and file names.
• Normalize user-generated titles for shareable links and SEO.
• Batch-convert multiple strings into a list of slugs for CSV imports or routing tables.

Examples

• Simple title
  Input: Hello, World!
  Slug: hello-world
• Accented text
  Input: Résumé & CV — 2024
  Slug: resume-cv-2024
• Consecutive separators
  Input: Clean --- this /// title
  Slug: clean-this-title

Tips & edge cases

• If you rely on transliteration for non‑Latin scripts, handle them upstream — this tool only supports Latin languages.
• Run Remove Diacritics or Remove Punctuation first if you want different normalization behavior:
  • Remove Diacritics
  • Remove Punctuation
  • Remove Spaces
• For filenames, avoid characters your filesystem rejects — the slug removes most unsafe chars but test on a sample first.
• All processing runs in your browser — your text does not leave your device.

Related tools

• Remove Diacritics — strip accents before slugifying if needed.
• Remove Punctuation — useful when you want punctuation removed instead of replaced.
• Case Converter — separate case-only changes.
• Remove Spaces — normalize spacing before conversion.

FAQ

Will accents be preserved?

No. Accents and diacritics are removed (é → e). Use Remove Diacritics first if you want an explicit step documented.

Can I use underscores instead of hyphens?

This tool uses hyphens for separators. If you need underscores, slugify the text then replace hyphens with underscores in a post-step (Find & Replace).

Is non‑Latin text supported?

No. The Slugify tool supports Latin languages only. Non‑Latin scripts will be stripped during ASCII transliteration and may lose meaning. Handle complex transliteration externally before using this tool.