# Install slugify with Homebrew, apt

Convert filenames and directories to a web friendly format. Version 1.0.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-04. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install slugify.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:slugify
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install slugify
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install slugify
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: slugify from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:slugify
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Source summary:** Convert filenames and directories to a web friendly format
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/JabberLabs/slugify>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/JabberLabs/slugify>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-04T16:53:45+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- slugify (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.0.1
## Project history and usage

Slugify is a small shell command for renaming files and directories into web-friendly forms. It sits in the long Unix tradition of tiny, composable filename-cleanup utilities.

### Project history

The official GitHub repository was created in 2012. The project published v1.0.0 in August 2015 and v1.0.1 in January 2016, with a man page describing `slugify` as a command that converts filenames and directories to a web-friendly format.

### Adoption history

The supplied package metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu packages. That distribution pattern fits a simple CLI utility: useful enough for packaging, but intentionally narrow in scope.

### How it is used

Slugify is commonly used to normalize filenames for the web, scripts, media libraries, or static-site workflows. Its documented dry-run mode is important because it lets users preview filesystem renames before changing files.

### Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about tools like slugify because they are boring, inspectable Unix commands: a single executable, a man page, predictable options, and no service dependency.

### Timeline

- 2012: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2015: v1.0.0 published.
- 2016: v1.0.1 and the January 2016 man page were published.

### Related projects

- It is conceptually related to other filename normalization, transliteration, batch rename, and static-site publishing tools rather than to a larger framework.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/benlinton/slugify>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/benlinton/slugify/releases>
- <https://github.com/benlinton/slugify#readme>
- <https://github.com/benlinton/slugify/blob/master/slugify.1>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - slugify - 8.0.4-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: slugify from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Python utility that generates clean, URL-safe slugs | https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify
- Ubuntu apt - slugify - 8.0.4-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: slugify from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Python slugify application that handles unicode | https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/slugify.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/slugify.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph