Slugify

Transform strings in any language into slugs.

It works by transliterating Unicode characters into alphanumeric strings (e.g. 字 into zi). All punctuation is stripped and whitespace between words are replaced by separators.

This package has no dependencies.

Examples

Slug.slugify("Hello, World!")
"hello-world"

Slug.slugify("你好，世界")
"nihaoshijie"

Slug.slugify("Wikipedia case", separator: ?_, lowercase: false)
"Wikipedia_case"

# Remember to check for nil if a valid slug is important!
Slug.slugify("🙅‍")
nil

Options

Whitespaces are replaced by separators (defaults to -). Pass any codepoint or string to customize the separator, or pass "" to have none.

Slug.slugify("  How are   you?  ")
"how-are-you"

Slug.slugify("John Doe", separator: ?.)
"john.doe"

Slug.slugify("Wide open spaces", separator: "%20")
"wide%20open%20spaces"

Slug.slugify("Madam, I'm Adam", separator: "")
"madamimadam"

Slugs are forced lowercase by default, unless lowercase: false is passed.

Slug.slugify("StUdLy CaPs", lowercase: false)
"StUdLy-CaPs"

To avoid transforming certain characters, pass a string (or a list of strings) of graphemes to ignore.

Slug.slugify("你好，世界", ignore: "你好")
"你好shijie"

Slug.slugify("你好，世界", ignore: ["你", "好"])
"你好shijie"

Caveats

Slugify cannot differentiate between Chinese characters and Japanese Kanji. In the same vein as other libraries, Japanese Kanji will transform into Chinese pinyin.

Installation

Add slugify to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:slugify, "~> 1.1"}]
end

Don’t forget to update your dependencies.

$ mix deps.get

License

Slugify is released under MIT license.

Credits

Inspired by Unidecode, Transliteration and Slugger.
Data ported from andyhu's excellent Transliteration package.