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part of a URL that makes it more human readable or SEO-friendly, but without necessarily being required by the web server.

A slug is a part of a URL that makes it more human readable or SEO-friendly, but without necessarily being required by the web server. Slugs can be generated from a page title and are typically the last part of the url.

Example:

  • Page Title: c# - What's the difference between String and string? - Stack Overflow
  • Slug: whats-the-difference-between-string-and-string

The full URL including the slug is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7074/whats-the-difference-between-string-and-string. Note that punctuation in the url is typically removed.

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What is a "slug" in Django?

When I read Django code I often see in models what is called a "slug". I am not quite sure what this is, but I do know it has something to do with URLs. How and when is this slug-thing supposed to be used? I have read its definition below in this…
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Turn a string into a valid filename?

I have a string that I want to use as a filename, so I want to remove all characters that wouldn't be allowed in filenames, using Python. I'd rather be strict than otherwise, so let's say I want to retain only letters, digits, and a small set of…
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Replace all characters that aren't letters and numbers with a hyphen

I am facing an issue with URLs, I want to be able to convert titles that could contain anything and have them stripped of all special characters so they only have letters and numbers and of course I would like to replace spaces with hyphens. How…
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How does Stack Overflow generate its SEO-friendly URLs?

What is a good complete regular expression or some other process that would take the title: How do you change a title to be part of the URL like Stack Overflow? and turn it into…
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What is the etymology of 'slug' in a URL?

Is "URL slug" a completely arbitrary word? Or does it stand for something? I used the word in a conversation with someone and when they asked me why it's called that I realized I didn't know. I know what it means of course. The Stack Overflow tag…
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How do I create a slug in Django?

I am trying to create a SlugField in Django. I created this simple model: from django.db import models class Test(models.Model): q = models.CharField(max_length=30) s = models.SlugField() I then do this: >>> from mysite.books.models import…
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PHP function to make slug (URL string)

I want to have a function to create slugs from Unicode strings, e.g. gen_slug('Andrés Cortez') should return andres-cortez. How should I do that?
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How to convert a Title to a URL slug in jQuery?

I'm working on an app in CodeIgniter, and I'm trying to make a field on a form dynamically generate the URL slug. What I'd like to do is remove the punctuation, convert it to lowercase, and replace the spaces with hyphens. So for example, Shane's…
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String slugification in Python

I am in search of the best way to "slugify" string what "slug" is, and my current solution is based on this recipe I have changed it a little bit to: s = 'String to slugify' slug = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s) slug = slug.encode('ascii',…
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Why do some websites add "Slugs" to the end of URLs?

Many websites, including this one, add what are apparently called slugs - descriptive but as far as I can tell useless bits of text - to the end of URLs. For example, the URL the site gives for this question…
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URL Slugify algorithm in C#?

So I have searched and browsed through the slug tag on SO and only found two compelling solution: Slugify and Character Transliteration in C# How to convert super- or subscript to normal text in C# Which are but partial solution to the problem. I…
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Best way to generate slugs (human-readable IDs) in Rails

You know, like myblog.com/posts/donald-e-knuth. Should I do this with the built in parameterize method? What about a plugin? I could imagine a plugin being nice for handling duplicate slugs, etc. Here are some popular Github plugins -- does anyone…
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Java code/library for generating slugs (for use in pretty URLs)

Web frameworks such as Rails and Django has built-in support for "slugs" which are used to generate readable and SEO-friendly URLs: Slugs in Rails Slugs in Django A slug string typically contains only of the characters a-z, 0-9 and - and can hence…
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How to make Django slugify work properly with Unicode strings?

What can I do to prevent slugify filter from stripping out non-ASCII alphanumeric characters? (I'm using Django 1.0.2) cnprog.com has Chinese characters in question URLs, so I looked in their code. They are not using slugify in templates, instead…
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Why SlugField() in Django?

Django has models.SlugField() which helps us to create some cool looking urls. My question is why specifying it as a field suppose I have this model class Blog(models.Model): title = models.CharField() and if I want to add slug, I could just…
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