Slug Generator

How Slug Generator works

Convert any title into a lowercase, accent-free URL slug with hyphens or underscores and a length limit. Everything happens inside this page: the tool reads your input, runs the calculation or conversion locally, and hands the result back to you. Nothing is transmitted, because there is no backend to transmit it to.

That design choice is deliberate. Most free tool sites upload your files to a server, process them there, and quietly keep a copy. Toolcin cannot do that — the site is a set of static files. If your connection dropped the moment the page finished loading, every tool would still work.

What a slug has to do

A slug is the readable part of a URL. It should be lowercase, hyphenated, ASCII-only and short enough to read at a glance. This tool lowercases the text, strips accents, replaces anything else with the separator you choose, and trims to a maximum length at a word boundary.

Trimming at a word boundary matters: cutting mid-word produces “how-to-rank-a-new-webs” instead of “how-to-rank-a-new-website”. The tool backs up to the last separator before the limit.

Hyphen or underscore

Google treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as part of a word. For URLs, hyphens are the safer choice; for database columns and code identifiers, underscores are conventional.

Never mix both in one site. Consistent URL patterns are easier to predict and easier to redirect later.

Accents, length and duplicates

Stripping accents is not cosmetic: a URL containing é is percent-encoded to %C3%A9, which is unreadable and sometimes shared wrongly in plain-text contexts. Removing them avoids the whole class of problem.

Aim for three to six words. A 60-character slug is usually a sentence that should have been shortened, and slugs cannot be changed later without a redirect.

Good to know

• Works offline once loaded, including on flights and in locked-down networks.
• No file size limit beyond your device's own memory.
• Free to use, with no account and no usage counter.
• Results are produced locally, so they are not logged or shared with anyone.

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