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Slug to Text
Turn a URL slug back into a readable title.
Quick Tool Overview
Slug to Text turns a URL slug back into a readable title — separators become spaces and the result is capitalised as a headline. Recognised acronyms come back in capitals rather than as "Seo", and date fragments are reassembled rather than split into three words.
- What it does
- Converts URL slugs back into readable titles
- You give it
- One slug, or a whole column of them
- You get back
- Readable titles, one per line
- Best for
- Site audits and making URL exports legible
About the Slug to Text
Auditing a site usually means staring at a column of URLs and trying to work out what each page actually is. A slug is a title with the punctuation removed and the spaces replaced, so turning it back is mostly mechanical — and worth automating.
This converts a slug into a readable title: separators become spaces, and the result is capitalised the way a headline would be. The details are what make it useful. Recognised acronyms come back in capitals rather than as "Seo" and "Html". Date fragments such as "2026-09-03" are reassembled rather than split into three words. Trailing ID numbers can be stripped. And a whole column of slugs converts at once, one per line.
Key features of the Slug to Text
Acronyms restored
SEO, HTML and PDF come back in capitals instead of as "Seo", "Html" and "Pdf".
Dates kept together
2026-09-03 is recognised as a date rather than becoming three separate words.
Trailing IDs stripped
The numeric ID many systems append to a slug can be removed so the title comes back clean.
Any separator
Hyphens, underscores, full stops and plus signs, detected automatically in most cases.
Honest about its limits
A slug has lost which words were proper nouns, and the page says so rather than guessing confidently.
How to use the Slug to Text
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Paste your slugs
One per line, or a whole column straight from a spreadsheet.
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2
Set the separator
Hyphens, underscores or full stops — detected automatically in most cases.
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Choose the capitalisation
Title case for a headline, or sentence case for a description.
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Copy the titles
Ready to paste back into a spreadsheet beside the original URLs.
Frequently asked questions
Close, but not always. A slug has lost the information about which words were proper nouns, so "the paris review" cannot be distinguished from "the paris café" by rule alone. Recognised acronyms and common proper nouns are restored; the rest needs an eye.
Fragments such as 2026-09-03 are recognised as dates and kept together rather than becoming three separate words, which is what a naive conversion does.
Yes. Many systems append a numeric ID to the slug, and there is a switch to strip a trailing run of digits so the title comes back clean.
Yes, along with full stops and plus signs. The separator is detected from the slug in most cases and can be set manually when a slug mixes them.
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