Turn any text into a URL slug
Clean, lowercase, hyphenated slugs from any text.
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About this tool
Type a headline or product name and get a clean slug instantly: lowercased, accents stripped, punctuation removed, words joined with single hyphens. 'Crème Brûlée: A How-To!' becomes creme-brulee-a-how-to.
Slugs made this way are safe in URLs, filenames and IDs across every system. The conversion runs live on your device as you type.
How it works
- Paste or type your text into the box.
- The results update live as you type.
- Copy the output, or download it as a file.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is a slug?
The human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like 'sort-lines' in convertze.com/text/sort-lines. Good slugs are lowercase, hyphenated and short, readable by both people and search engines.
What happens to accents and special characters?
Accented letters are converted to their plain equivalents, é to e, ü to u, and anything that is not a letter or digit becomes a hyphen, with repeats collapsed. The result is pure lowercase ASCII that works everywhere.
Are hyphens or underscores better in URLs?
Hyphens. Search engines treat hyphens as word separators but treat underscores as word joiners, so hyphenated slugs are read as their separate words.