Generador de Slug

A Slug Generator is a specialized text manipulator that transforms titles and phrases into a "URL-safe" format. In modern Web Development, slugs are essential for creating SEO-friendly URLs (e.g., tools.com/slug-generator instead of tools.com/page?id=100). A clean slug is more readable for humans and more authoritative for search engine crawlers.

Implementation & Processing Pipeline

The slugification engine follows a rigorous multi-step transformation pipeline:

1. Unicode Normalization: The tool applies NFD Normalization to decompose accented characters (e.g., é becomes e + ´).
2. Diacritic Stripping: Accents and marks are removed, leaving only the base Latin characters.
3. Lowercase Conversion: All characters are transformed to lowercase to ensure consistency across different web servers (many of which are case-sensitive).
4. Symbol Removal: Non-Alphanumeric characters (punctuation, emojis, etc.) are stripped or replaced with the designated separator.
5. Separator Application: Spaces and illegal characters are replaced with a "glue" character, typically a hyphen (-) or underscore (_).
6. Collapsing and Trimming: Multiple consecutive separators are collapsed into one, and any leading/trailing separators are trimmed to ensure a clean string.

The History of Slugs and Permalinks

The term "Slug" originated in the world of News Editing. It was a short name given to an article as it moved through the production process.

• Django Framework (2005): Popularized the term "SlugField" for database-driven URLs.
• WordPress (2003): Referred to them as "Permalinks" but used the logic of slugs to turn post titles into links.