URL Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. Choose your separator and case, optionally remove common English stop words, strip special characters, and cap the length. Everything runs in your browser, so your text stays completely private.
How to Generate a URL Slug
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Enter your title
Type or paste a title — a blog headline, a product name, a page heading — into the input box. The slug regenerates live as you type, so you see the result take shape immediately without pressing a button.
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Choose a separator and case
Pick how words are joined: a hyphen, an underscore, or a dot. Then choose lowercase or uppercase. A hyphen with lowercase is the conventional choice for web URLs because search engines read hyphens as spaces between words.
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Set the options
Toggle Remove Stop Words to drop a built-in list of 19 common English words such as the, and, and of. Toggle Remove Special Characters to strip punctuation while keeping word and Chinese characters. Set a maximum length to cap how long the slug can grow.
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Copy the slug
The finished slug appears with a copy button, and a preview URL shows how it looks inside a real path such as /blog/your-slug. Copy it in one click and paste it straight into your CMS or routing config.
Why Use a Slug Generator?
Consistent, Readable URLs
Doing this by hand leads to inconsistent slugs — mixed case, stray punctuation, the odd double hyphen. The generator applies the same rules every time: it splits on spaces and existing separators, joins with your chosen character, and collapses consecutive separators so the result is always tidy.
SEO-Focused Output
Short, keyword-rich slugs are easier to read in search results and when shared. Optional stop-word removal trims filler words like the and of, and the max-length cap keeps slugs from sprawling, both of which help produce links people and search engines prefer.
Completely Private
Slug generation runs entirely on the client. You can paste unpublished headlines or internal page titles without any of it being logged or transmitted to a server.
No Setup, Works Everywhere
There is nothing to install and no account to create. The generator loads in any modern browser on desktop or mobile, ready whenever you are drafting a new page or post.
Common Scenarios
Publishing a New Blog Post
When you write a headline like "The Ultimate Guide to Building Clean URLs", you want a tidy slug rather than the raw title in the address bar. Paste the headline, switch on stop-word removal, and you get something like ultimate-guide-building-clean-urls — short, lowercase, and focused on the keywords that matter.
Normalizing Imported Content
Migrating articles from one CMS to another often leaves you with inconsistent or missing slugs. Run each title through the generator with a fixed separator, case, and max length to produce uniform slugs across the whole site, which keeps your URL structure predictable after the move.
Creating Slugs for Non-English Titles
Because the special-character filter is built to keep Chinese characters, you can generate a clean slug from a Chinese title without it being stripped away. That makes the tool useful for bilingual sites where some pages have English titles and others do not.
Tips and Best Practices
Prefer Hyphens and Lowercase
For web URLs, a hyphen separator with lowercase output is the safest default. Search engines treat hyphens as word boundaries, and lowercase avoids the case-sensitivity surprises that can occur on some servers.
Use Stop-Word Removal Judiciously
Removing stop words shortens a slug and sharpens its keywords, but it only covers a fixed list of 19 English words. Glance at the result to make sure the slug still reads sensibly and has not dropped a word the page actually needs.
Set a Sensible Max Length
A long slug is harder to read and share. The default cap of 60 characters is a good starting point; the generator trims to the limit and removes any trailing separator so the slug never ends on a stray hyphen.
Lock the Slug Before Publishing
Once a page is live and indexed, changing its slug means setting up redirects. Generate and finalize the slug before you publish so you do not have to manage redirects for a URL that was never shared.
Compared to Alternatives
Most content management systems generate a slug for you when you save a post, which is convenient but rigid: you usually cannot choose the separator, control stop-word removal, or preview different options before committing. This generator lets you experiment with the separator, case, stop words, and length live, then paste the exact slug you want into the CMS.
Plenty of online slug makers exist, but many of them send your title to a server to process it, which is not ideal for unpublished headlines or internal page names. URL Shuttle does the whole transformation in your browser, so a draft title never leaves the page while you still get the same clean, configurable output.
You could also write a quick slugify function yourself, and many developers do. That works, but reimplementing separator collapsing, stop-word filtering, special-character handling, and length trimming each time is busywork — and easy to get subtly wrong. This tool bundles all of those rules behind a few toggles, with a preview URL so you can see the result in context before you ship it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, usually derived from its title — for example how-to-build-a-url in /blog/how-to-build-a-url. A clean slug is easier to read and share and tends to be better for SEO.
What separators can I choose?
You can join words with a hyphen, an underscore, or a dot. A hyphen is the most common choice for web URLs because search engines treat it as a word separator.
What does removing stop words do?
When enabled, the generator drops a built-in list of 19 common English stop words such as a, an, the, and, or, of, and with. That shortens the slug and focuses it on the meaningful keywords, but it only affects those English words.
Does it support non-English characters?
Yes. The special-character filter keeps word characters and Chinese characters, so a Chinese title is preserved rather than stripped. Some other scripts may be removed when the strip-special-characters option is enabled.
Is my data safe?
Completely. The slug is generated entirely in your browser and nothing you type is transmitted, so you can paste unpublished titles without any privacy concern.
What is the preview URL for?
The preview shows your slug inside a sample path such as /blog/your-slug, so you can judge how it will look in a real address before you copy it into your site.
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