Free URL Slug Generator

A URL slug is the part of a web address that identifies a specific page in a human-readable form. For example, in "example.com/blog/how-to-build-an-api", the slug is "how-to-build-an-api". Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens as separators, and contain relevant keywords for SEO.

The generator automatically removes special characters like punctuation, symbols, and emojis. When transliteration is enabled, it also converts accented and unicode characters to their ASCII equivalents (e.g., "cafe" from "cafe", "strasse" from "straße"). Multiple spaces and separators are collapsed into a single separator.

Removing stop words (like "the", "a", "is", "in") can make slugs shorter and more focused on keywords. For SEO purposes, shorter slugs with relevant keywords often perform better. However, sometimes stop words improve readability. Use the "Remove stop words" option to toggle this behavior.

Hyphens (-) are the recommended separator for URL slugs. Google treats hyphens as word separators, which helps with SEO. Underscores are treated as word joiners by Google, so "web_design" would be indexed as one word. Dots are less common but valid in URLs.

Yes. The slug generator runs in your browser and requires no QTool.io account. The broader collection contains 269 indexed tool pages; check each page's network boundary before using sensitive data.