slugify-unicode

A lightweight, dependency-free URL slug generator supporting multilingual unicode transliteration (Hindi/Devanagari, Cyrillic/Russian, and accented Latin scripts).

Features

• 🚀 Zero dependencies — extremely fast and lightweight.
• 🇮🇳 Hindi/Devanagari Support — transliterates Hindi words phonetically (e.g., नमस्ते -> namaste).
• 🇷🇺 Cyrillic Support — transliterates Russian/Cyrillic characters (e.g., привет -> privet).
• 🇪🇺 Accent Stripping — strips accents/diacritics from European characters (e.g., bárbaro -> barbaro).
• 🛠️ Customisable Separator — choose your own word separator (defaults to -).

Installation

npm install slug-unicode

Usage

const { slugify } = require('slugify-unicode');

// Basic English with special characters
console.log(slugify('Hello World, how are you?')); 
// Output: "hello-world-how-are-you"

// Spanish / Accents
console.log(slugify('Canción del verano 2026!')); 
// Output: "cancion-del-verano-2026"

// Hindi / Devanagari
console.log(slugify('यह एक बेहतरीन पैकेज है')); 
// Output: "yah-ek-bahatareen-paikej-hai"

// Cyrillic / Russian
console.log(slugify('Как дела?')); 
// Output: "kak-dela"

// Custom Separator
console.log(slugify('Hello World', { separator: '_' })); 
// Output: "hello_world"

API

slugify(text, options)

Generates a URL slug from the input string.

| Option | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | lowercase | boolean | true | Convert the resulting slug to lowercase. | | separator | string | '-' | Character used to separate words in the slug. |

License

MIT