Practical usage guide
What this tool does
Slug Generator turns one title per line into a compact URL-friendly segment. It normalizes combining marks, replaces punctuation and whitespace with a chosen separator, collapses repeated separators, optionally lowercases text, and applies a configurable length limit.
A clean slug improves readability but does not by itself improve search ranking. Stable information architecture, useful page content, redirects, canonical URLs, and avoiding duplicate pages matter more than a particular separator.
Quick start
Enter one title per line
Use the human-readable source title. Keep meaningful words and remove private or temporary data before generating public URLs.
Choose separator, case, and length
Hyphens are common for web paths; underscores may fit internal identifiers. Set a length that leaves the slug understandable.
Check the destination for conflicts
Before publishing, confirm that another page does not already use the same slug and create a redirect if replacing an existing URL.
Common use cases
Create article and documentation paths
Turn headings into readable route segments for a CMS or static documentation site.
Prepare a batch migration
Generate one candidate slug per line while moving titles from a spreadsheet or legacy system.
Normalize public file labels
Create consistent text-based identifiers when a system accepts URL-style names.
Limitations and important notes
Unicode letters are kept, not transliterated
Chinese and other letters can remain in the slug and may later be percent-encoded by a browser. The tool does not create pinyin or ASCII transliterations.
Uniqueness is not guaranteed
Different titles can normalize to the same output, and truncation increases collision risk. Enforce uniqueness in the publishing system.
Length limits can cut a word
The current limit slices the normalized string and then removes a trailing separator; it does not search for the last complete word.