Text to Slug
Convert text into clean, URL-friendly slugs — with real transliteration (ü→ue, ß→ss, $→dollar), case control, and batch mode
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Turning a headline into a clean URL slug usually loses anything that is not plain ASCII. This Text to Slug tool transliterates instead of dropping: ü becomes ue, ß becomes ss, ñ becomes n, Cyrillic ж becomes zh, and symbols turn into words ($ → dollar, & → and, % → percent), so "Crème Brûlée & 50% Off" becomes "creme-brulee-and-50-percent-off". Pick the word separator (hyphen, underscore, period, or none), choose lowercase, preserved, or uppercase output, and optionally cap the length — with an option to break at a word boundary rather than mid-word when truncating. A strict mode restricts output to ASCII; turn it off to keep Unicode letters. Batch mode slugifies each pasted line independently, dropping any that contain no slug-safe characters. The slug regenerates live as you type or change options, and the exact input and separator are captured in a shareable URL. Everything runs locally in your browser.
How to Use
- 1Open "Slug options" and choose a separator (hyphen, underscore, period, or none) and the output case.
- 2Optionally set a max length and toggle "Break on word boundary" to avoid cutting mid-word.
- 3Toggle the transliteration options (accents/letters, symbols), strict ASCII mode, and "One slug per line (batch)".
- 4Type or paste your text — or click "Load example" — and the slug appears live below.
- 5Copy or download the slug, or copy the page URL to share the exact text and separator.
Key Benefits
- Real transliteration of accented, Greek, and Cyrillic letters instead of dropping them
- Symbol-to-word conversion: $→dollar, &→and, %→percent, @→at, and more
- Four separator choices — hyphen, underscore, period, or joined with none
- Lowercase, preserve-case, or uppercase output
- Optional max length with smart truncation at a word boundary
- Strict ASCII mode, or keep Unicode letters when turned off
- Batch mode slugifies each line independently; live preview and shareable URL
Common Use Cases
- Generating SEO-friendly URL slugs from blog post or article titles
- Converting international titles with accents or non-Latin scripts into clean ASCII slugs
- Producing file names or CSS class names from human-readable labels
- Slugifying a whole list of titles at once with batch mode
- Creating stable, length-capped identifiers from product or page names
Slug options
Truncate at a separator, not mid-word
ü→ue, ß→ss, ñ→n, ж→zh
$→dollar, &→and, %→percent
Off keeps Unicode letters
Slugify each line independently
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Many tools delete characters they cannot handle, so "Grüße" becomes "gre". This tool transliterates: ü becomes ue, ö becomes oe, ß becomes ss, ñ becomes n, and Greek and Cyrillic letters map to their Latin equivalents. Symbols and currency signs become words too, so the meaning of the slug is preserved rather than lost.
You can join words with a hyphen, underscore, period, or nothing at all, and output the slug in lowercase, with its original case preserved, or in uppercase. Hyphen and lowercase are the defaults because they are the most common convention for URLs.