String slugification in Python

Question

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:

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Answer 1

A couple of options on GitHub:

1. https://github.com/dimka665/awesome-slugify
2. https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify
3. https://github.com/mozilla/unicode-slugify

Each supports slightly different parameters for its API, so you'll need to look through to figure out what you prefer.

In particular, pay attention to the different options they provide for dealing with non-ASCII characters. Pydanny wrote a very helpful blog post illustrating some of the unicode handling differences in these slugify'ing libraries: http://www.pydanny.com/awesome-slugify-human-readable-url-slugs-from-any-string.html This blog post is slightly outdated because Mozilla's unicode-slugify is no longer Django-specific.

Also note that currently awesome-slugify is GPLv3, though there's an open issue where the author says they'd prefer to release as MIT/BSD, just not sure of the legality: https://github.com/dimka665/awesome-slugify/issues/24