Slugify
Convert text to URL-friendly slugs.
Paste a title or phrase and get a lowercase, hyphen-separated, ASCII-only slug ready to use as a URL path, filename, or identifier. Accented characters get transliterated to their base letter; non-Latin scripts are converted where possible.
Common use cases: generating blog post URLs from titles, creating clean filenames from human-readable names, building anchor IDs from headings, and producing identifiers from user-supplied text for use in URLs or filesystems.
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Frequently asked questions
What makes a good URL slug?
Short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, ASCII-only.
my-blog-post not My_Blog_Post.html. Hyphens (not underscores) because search engines treat hyphens as word separators. ASCII because non-Latin characters get percent-encoded in URLs and become unreadable.How are accented characters and non-Latin scripts handled?
Accents are stripped to their base letter (
ñ → n, ü → u) so the slug stays readable. Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic and other scripts are transliterated to Latin when a reasonable mapping exists, or dropped otherwise.Should I include stop words like "the" and "a"?
Modern search engines aren't hurt by them, so don't strip them automatically — sometimes they're important for meaning.
a-history-of-violence and history-of-violence are different things.What about emojis and symbols?
They're dropped from slugs because URL-encoded emojis (
%F0%9F%98%80) are unreadable and break in many contexts. If you really need a symbol in a URL, spell it out as a word.