URL Slug Generator
Convert product titles and text into clean, URL-safe slugs with normalized accents and hyphens. Process full lists locally in your browser for SEO and feeds.
Tips
- Multi-line mode generates a separate slug for each row to convert full product catalogs at once.
- Consecutive hyphens collapse into a single dash, and leading or trailing dashes are automatically removed.
- Punctuation marks, symbols, and emoji characters are stripped to ensure clean ASCII output.
How to use it
- 1 Paste your page titles or product names into the input box, entering one item per line for batch processing.
- 2 Review the generated list of sanitized, lowercase ASCII slugs in the output window.
- 3 Copy the converted slugs directly into your store catalog spreadsheet, Shopify handle column, or CMS permalink field.
What you should know
A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page or product. Non-ASCII characters, spaces, and punctuation in raw titles frequently cause broken hyperlinks, reporting discrepancies, and messy percent-encoded URLs such as %20 or %C3%A9 when shared across platforms. E-commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce require clean ASCII handles for product catalogs to prevent 404 routing errors. Generating standardized slugs ensures web crawlers index your pages accurately, improves link readability in search engine results, and avoids encoding errors in data feeds and sitemaps.
This tool converts headings, product titles, and raw strings into sanitized, lowercase URL slugs. It strips special symbols, converts spaces into single hyphens, eliminates redundant dashes, and normalizes international accented characters into their standard Latin equivalents. You can process a single title or paste multi-line product inventories to transform hundreds of rows simultaneously. All text processing occurs locally within your browser using JavaScript string APIs, ensuring your product launch drafts and proprietary catalog lists remain entirely private on your device without server transmission.
Frequently asked questions
Must every URL slug on a website be unique?
Yes, two pages or products cannot share identical slugs on the same domain without causing routing conflicts. If multiple products generate duplicate slugs, append unique identifiers such as a color variant, size, or SKU number to the end.
Are non-ASCII characters harmful for search engine optimization?
Modern search engines can parse Unicode characters, but browsers and external apps automatically convert them into unsightly percent-encoded strings when shared. Plain ASCII slugs prevent broken links in marketing emails, social posts, and analytics reports.
Is your text or catalog data uploaded to any server?
No, all character sanitization and formatting run directly inside your browser via local client-side scripts. Your inventory titles, draft articles, and product names never leave your computer or get saved externally.
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