URL Slug Generator

A slug is the tail of a URL that names the page — the how-to-write-a-slug in example.com/blog/how-to-write-a-slug. Readers scan it before clicking and search engines weigh its words, so a short lowercase hyphenated slug beats an id number or a string of percent-encoded characters every time.

What this slugger actually does

Latin text is lowercased, diacritics are folded, apostrophes are absorbed and spaces become hyphens, while an optional English stop-word filter drops fillers like a, the and of. A length badge warns past 60 characters, and one click copies the result.

Two honest modes for Chinese titles

Chinese has no spaces, so you choose: pinyin mode transliterates through a built-in table of about 3,500 common characters — picking each polyphonic reading by real-world word-frequency votes — while keep-characters mode preserves the original script untouched. Other scripts such as Cyrillic or Devanagari pass through as-is; only Chinese is transliterated.

When you would use it

A dedicated slugger earns its keep in three spots:

• Slug every blog post before publishing instead of accepting the CMS default
• Generate product URL keys in bulk with consistent hyphenation
• Clean up webinar replay titles that arrived with dates and speaker names glued on

Honest limits

Rare characters outside the top-3,500 fall back to their original form, and polyphonic readings follow the most common usage rather than your exact context. Stop-word removal covers English only — Chinese function characters often carry meaning inside compounds, so they are left alone.

Privacy

Privacy is straightforward here: slugs are generated locally in your browser from keystroke to clipboard, and your titles never leave the device.