Slugify Action for Mac

Overview

What Slugify does

Slugify turns a phrase into clean, web-friendly text: it uses lowercase letters, removes accents, and joins words with hyphens.

Best for	URLs, filenames, and identifiers
Result	Replaceable text
Runs	Locally in ActionClip
Setup	None

Interactive example

Try the transformation

This browser preview follows the same transformation used by the Marketplace action.

Selected text

Result

Workflow

Use Slugify

Follow these steps to turn selected text into a readable URL slug with ActionClip.

Select a heading, phrase, or label in an editable Mac app.
Choose Slugify from ActionClip.
Replace the selection or copy the transformed result.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

Setup: No setup is required.
Your selected text: The action runs locally in ActionClip and does not send your text anywhere.

No account, API key, network request, or third-party app is required.

Inspect before installing

Action configuration

The source is visible so you can understand the exact transformation before adding it.

JavaScript source

function run(selected_text) {
  return selected_text
    .normalize("NFKD")
    .replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "")
    .toLowerCase()
    .replace(/\./g, "-dot-")
    .replace(/\+/g, "-plus-")
    .replace(/&/g, "-and-")
    .replace(/@/g, "-at-")
    .replace(/_/g, "-")
    .replace(/[^a-z0-9\s-]+/g, "")
    .replace(/[\s-]+/g, "-")
    .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
}