A slug is the URL-friendly version of a title: lowercase letters, numbers, and a single separator character in place of spaces and punctuation. For example, "My Blog Post!" becomes "my-blog-post".

Does it handle accented characters?

Yes. Letters like é, ü, ñ, and Polish characters like ą, ć, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż are converted to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent (é → e, ł → l, ß → ss) instead of being stripped out.

Can I use underscores instead of hyphens?

Yes. Switch the separator to underscore if that fits your URL scheme or file naming convention better. Hyphens are the more common convention for web URLs.

Why are punctuation and symbols removed?

Slugs are meant to be safe in URLs without any encoding, so anything that isn't a letter or number is replaced with the separator. Runs of spaces or punctuation collapse into a single separator, and leading/trailing separators are trimmed.

Is my text stored anywhere?

No. Your text is sent to the DailyTooler API only to generate the slug and is not logged or saved.

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Slug generator

Turn a title into a clean, URL-friendly slug that handles accents and special characters.

Input

Slug

Separator

Lowercase

What is a slug generator?

Paste a title, heading, or file name and get back a clean, URL-safe slug: lowercase, separated by hyphens or underscores, with accented and special characters converted to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent rather than dropped.

Useful for turning blog post titles into URLs, generating consistent file names, or building CSS class names and IDs from arbitrary text.

Slug generator

What is a slug generator?

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