URL Slug Generator

How to Generate URL Slugs Online

Pixab AI's URL slug generator converts any text into a clean, URL-safe string in one click. Type or paste your title, heading, or phrase into the input field. For multiple slugs at once, toggle Bulk mode to switch to a textarea where you can paste one title per line and get one slug per line in the output — ideal for processing a full blog post list or a spreadsheet column of product names.

Choose your separator: hyphen (the default and SEO-recommended choice), underscore, dot, or none (concatenates words directly). Select Force lowercaseto ensure the output is always lowercase — important for case-sensitive file systems and web servers. Enable Remove stop words to strip common function words like “a,” “the,” “and,” and “or” from the slug — this produces shorter, more keyword-focused URLs. Set a Max lengthto automatically truncate slugs that exceed a specific character count (the truncation avoids cutting in the middle of a separator).

Click Generate Slug and the result appears in the output panel. In single mode, the slug is displayed in a monospace code block. In bulk mode, all slugs appear in a textarea, one per line, ready to copy and paste back into your spreadsheet or CMS. ClickCopy to send the result to your clipboard.

After generating your slug, use our Case Converterif you need the slug in a specific capitalisation format, or our Character Counter to verify URL length for SEO purposes (keep URLs under 75 characters for best practice).

Why Use Pixab AI's URL Slug Generator?

Clean URL slugs are one of the most important and most overlooked aspects of SEO and web development. A poorly formatted slug — with spaces, capital letters, special characters, or non-ASCII characters — causes broken links, inconsistent redirects, and missed ranking opportunities. Pixab AI's slug generator solves every common slugification problem in one tool.

Handles non-Latin scripts via transliteration. This is the feature that sets Pixab AI's slug generator apart from basic tools. The underlying slugify library transliterates Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Greek, and dozens of other script systems into ASCII equivalents. “مرحبا بالعالم” (Arabic for “Hello World”) becomes a readable Latin slug automatically. This is essential for multilingual websites, global e-commerce platforms, and CMS installations serving non-English audiences.

Stop word removal for shorter, cleaner URLs. A blog post titled “The Best Ways to Learn Programming” produces the slugthe-best-ways-to-learn-programming without stop word removal — 37 characters including function words that add no SEO value. With stop words removed, it becomesbest-ways-learn-programming — 28 characters, tighter, and more keyword-focused. Shorter slugs are preferred by SEO practitioners for competitive keywords.

Bulk mode for productivity. Processing 200 blog post titles one by one is not a viable workflow. Bulk mode handles entire lists in a single operation — paste a column of titles, get a column of slugs, copy and paste back into your spreadsheet or CMS import file. This turns a 20-minute task into a 20-second one.

Max length enforcement. Many CMS platforms and URL standards recommend keeping slugs under 75 characters. Some platforms hard-limit at 200 characters. The max length option automatically truncates slugs at a clean separator boundary rather than mid-word, ensuring every generated slug is within your platform's limits.

Privacy. Your titles, headings, and product names stay on your device. No input content is logged or transmitted. This matters when generating slugs for unannounced product launches, draft blog posts, or internal tooling.

Common Use Cases

Blog and CMS URL generation. Every blog post, article, and product page needs a URL slug. WordPress, Ghost, Contentful, Sanity, and most other CMS platforms auto-generate slugs but often include stop words, fail on non-ASCII titles, or produce overly long strings. Generating slugs here first — then pasting into the CMS — gives you full control over the final URL before publication.

E-commerce product URLs. Product names often include special characters, trademark symbols, and non-Latin characters. Slug generation ensures product pages have clean URLs that work on all devices and do not require URL encoding. Bulk mode processes an entire product catalogue at once.

File and folder naming. Developers and content managers creating files and directories for web projects need consistent, lowercase, hyphen-separated names. Generating slugs from descriptive titles ensures file names are web-safe and case-consistent across operating systems (macOS is case-insensitive; Linux is case-sensitive — consistent lowercase slugs avoid cross-platform conflicts).

Database identifier generation. Applications that auto-generate unique URL identifiers from user-provided names (workspaces, teams, projects) need reliable slugification. Generate slugs here to preview and validate the format before implementing the equivalent logic in your backend. Pair with our Find and Replace tool to normalize input before slugification for edge case testing.

How It Works

The tool uses the open-source slugify npm package, which supports transliteration of over 500 Unicode character ranges to ASCII equivalents. The input text first has stop words removed (if selected), then is passed to slugify(text, { replacement, lower, strict, trim }). The strict: true option removes any characters that are not alphanumeric or the chosen separator. Max length truncation is applied after slugification, trimming at a separator boundary to avoid partial words.

Tips for Best Results

Always use hyphens as separators for public-facing URLs — Google's Search Central documentation explicitly recommends hyphens over underscores for word separation in URLs because hyphens are treated as word separators by search engines while underscores are not. Keep slugs under 75 characters: shorter slugs are easier to share, less likely to be truncated in social media previews, and carry the same ranking weight as longer slugs for the same keywords. If your titles are in multiple languages, process each language separately since transliteration quality varies by script.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a URL slug?

A URL slug is the portion of a web address that identifies a specific page, typically after the domain and any directory path. In example.com/blog/my-article-title, the slug is my-article-title. Slugs should be lowercase, use hyphens as word separators, contain only alphanumeric characters and hyphens, and be as short and descriptive as possible.

Why use hyphens instead of underscores?

Google treats hyphens as word separators in URLs, meaning my-blog-post is understood as three separate words for search ranking purposes. Underscores are treated as word connectors — my_blog_post is read as one word. This has been confirmed by Google's own documentation since at least 2011. For SEO-optimized URLs, always prefer hyphens.

Which non-Latin scripts does transliteration support?

The slugify library supports Arabic, Urdu, Hindi (Devanagari), Chinese (Pinyin-based), Russian (Cyrillic), Greek, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese (Romaji), and dozens more. Transliteration quality varies by language — for Chinese, the output is Pinyin without tone marks; for Arabic, it is a common romanization system.

Does stop word removal affect SEO?

Removing stop words from slugs is generally considered beneficial for SEO. Function words like “the,” “and,” “a,” and “in” carry no keyword value in a URL. Shorter slugs are easier to link to and share. However, if a stop word is part of a brand name or required for clarity (e.g., “the-guardian”), disable stop word removal for that entry.

How does max length truncation work?

The slug is truncated at the specified character limit. If the truncation point falls in the middle of a separator (e.g., mid-hyphen), the trailing separator is also removed so the slug ends cleanly on an alphanumeric character.

Can I use the generated slugs commercially?

Yes. Slugs generated by this tool are plain text strings with no intellectual property attached. Use them freely for any commercial or personal web project.

Does the tool handle special characters like &, %, @, and #?

Yes. With strict: true enabled, all characters that are not alphanumeric or the chosen separator are removed from the output. Ampersands, percent signs, at-signs, hash symbols, and other special characters are stripped. If you need to preserve certain characters, use our Find and Replace tool to substitute them with words before slugification (e.g., replace “&” with “and”).