What does the slug generator do?

It strips punctuation, folds accented characters to plain ASCII, collapses whitespace and joins words with a hyphen (or underscore) to produce a clean, URL-safe slug.

Can I keep non-Latin characters?

Yes. Turn off ASCII only to keep Unicode letters and numbers in the slug; turn it on to fold everything down to plain ASCII for maximum compatibility.

Is anything sent to a server?

No. The slug is generated entirely in your browser — your titles and text never leave your device.

Why use hyphens instead of underscores in a URL?

Google treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as joiners, so "best-coffee" reads as two words while "best_coffee" reads as one. Hyphens are the recommended choice for SEO-friendly URLs; underscores are offered for filenames and code where they are conventional.

What happens to accented and non-Latin characters?

Accented Latin letters are folded to their base ASCII form (café becomes cafe) using Unicode normalisation. With "ASCII only" off, other Unicode letters and digits are kept so you can build slugs in non-Latin scripts.

How long should a URL slug be?

There is no hard limit, but short and descriptive wins — roughly 3 to 6 words. Trim filler words like "the" and "a" from the title before slugifying for the cleanest, most readable URL.

Does it remove duplicate and trailing separators?

Yes. Runs of spaces, hyphens or underscores collapse to a single separator, and leading or trailing separators are trimmed, so you never get a slug like "--my--post--".

URL Slug Generator — Gera Tools

Generate clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs

This tool turns any title or heading into a tidy, URL-safe slug — the lowercase, hyphenated string that appears in a page address (e.g. /best-privacy-tools-2026). It is built for bloggers, CMS users and developers who need a consistent permalink or filename from a human-written title without retyping it.

How it works

The text is first Unicode-normalised (NFKD) and stripped of combining accent marks, so é becomes e and ü becomes u. It is lowercased (optional), then punctuation and symbols are removed — with ASCII only on, anything outside A–Z, 0–9 is dropped; with it off, Unicode letters and digits from any script are kept. Finally, every run of spaces, hyphens and underscores is collapsed into your chosen separator, and leading and trailing separators are trimmed.

Example

The title 10 Best Privacy-First Tools (2026 Edition!) becomes:

10-best-privacy-first-tools-2026-edition

The parentheses and exclamation mark are removed, the spaces become hyphens, and the case is lowered.

Input	Slug
Hello, World!	hello-world
Café & Crème	cafe-creme
My_Draft Post	my-draft-post
2026 Q1 Report	2026-q1-report

Everything runs in your browser, so your titles and content are never uploaded or stored anywhere.