Package

transliteration

Unicode to ASCII transliteration / slugify module for node.js, browser, Web Worker, ReactNative and CLI.

v2.6.1, 20 Jan 2026MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledStrings and text

$ npm install transliteration

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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 624.6k; +15% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 0; Direct, from package.json
Last release: 8 months ago; v2.6.1
GitHub stars: 642; 63 forks
Open issues / PRs: 17 / 5
Contributors: -
Commits, last 52 weeks: 8

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21

Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

624,643 downloads last week, 3,358,155 in the last month. The 12-month change of +15% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: 481 in total
Latest version: 2.6.1, 20 Jan 20268 months ago
First published: 27 Aug 2014
Last push to GitHub: 20 Jan 2026247 days before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 17
Open pull requests: 5
Commits, last 52 weeks: 8
Dependents on npm: 509

Major versions

v2 first release 2.0.0, 11 Jan 2019
v1 first release 1.0.0, 21 May 2016
v0 first release 0.0.1, 27 Aug 2014

Recent releases

Version	Published
2.6.1	20 Jan 2026
2.6.0	17 Dec 2025
2.5.0	16 Dec 2025
2.4.0	16 Dec 2025
2.3.5	6 Jul 2022
2.3.4	6 Jul 2022
2.3.3	5 Jul 2022
2.3.2	5 Jul 2022
2.3.1	5 Jul 2022
2.3.0	5 Jul 2022
2.2.0	28 Oct 2020
2.1.11	16 May 2020
2.1.10	16 May 2020
2.1.9	3 May 2020

Compatibility

Module format: ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: Bundled
Node.js engine range: >=20.0.0
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 3.4 MB
Dependencies (0): None

Install

npm install transliteration

CDN

jsDelivr: 17.4m requests in 30 days

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/transliteration@2.6.1/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/transliteration@2.6.1/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/transliteration@2.6.1

Alternatives

Package	Weekly downloads	Gzip	Last release	Module	Comparison
any-ascii Unicode to ASCII transliteration	67.6k	-	1 year ago	ESM only	-
replace-special-characters Remove accents and replace special Latin characters with plain equivalents	12.6k	-	1 month ago	CommonJS	-
@sindresorhus/transliterate Convert Unicode characters to Latin characters using transliteration	4m	-	8 months ago	ESM only	-

Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.