search_archives

Search Arkivportalen, the national archive catalogue: fonds, series and units held by Norwegian archive institutions (statsarkiv, byarkiv, private archives, ...).

Signature: search_archives(query: string, required; limit: integer, items, optional, default 25; offset: integer, items, optional, default 0)

Direct GET

For navigating agents: open the HTML page with parameters in the URL. The result is fetched and displayed without screenshots or form filling.

Open this validated HTML GET URL

https://allemannsdata.com/wiki/kilder/arkivverket/search_archives/?query={query}&limit=25&offset=0

Replace {query}, {limit} with values. Remove unused optional parameters from the URL.

For software and dashboards: Read the operation descriptor. The JSON GET template is https://allemannsdata.com/wiki/api/v1/kilder/arkivverket/search_archives?query={query}&limit=25&offset=0. Open this exact request as JSON.

Parameter	Requirement	JSON type	Description
`query`	required	string	Free-text search, e.g. an organisation, topic or place.
`limit`	optional	integer	Results per page. Unit: items. Through this API: default 25, maximum 100.
`offset`	optional	integer	Number of list items to skip; default 0.

Generated JavaScript, Python and response structure

Use JSON when the user requests code, machine-readable data, value extraction or further computation. Use the HTML GET page to identify the correct source and verify parameters.

Example for generated JavaScript and Python

https://allemannsdata.com/wiki/api/v1/kilder/arkivverket/search_archives?query={query}&limit=25&offset=0

Replace URL placeholders and remove unused optional parameters.

JavaScript in a dashboard

const url = "https://allemannsdata.com/wiki/api/v1/kilder/arkivverket/search_archives?query={query}&limit=25&offset=0";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) {
  const failure = await response.json();
  throw new Error(`${failure.error.code}: ${failure.error.message} ${failure.suggestion}`);
}
const result = await response.json();
const data = result.data;

Python without additional packages

import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

url = "https://allemannsdata.com/wiki/api/v1/kilder/arkivverket/search_archives?query={query}&limit=25&offset=0"
with urlopen(url) as response:
    result = json.load(response)
data = result["data"]

Response structure

{
  "source": "arkivverket",
  "operation": "search_archives",
  "parameters": {},
  "data": {},
  "entities": [],
  "_meta": {"retrieved_at": "...", "sources": [], "cache": {}},
  "_links": {"self": "...", "source": "...", "wiki": "...", "feedback": "..."}
}

Form for manual use

The form is a fallback for people and browser agents that cannot open the GET URL directly.

Result

Source: National Archives of Norway. Retrieved 2026-11-13T08:22:46Z in 0.191 seconds.

Showing 10 of 58279 results in compact format.

name:
Kontrakt. Rammeavtale, RIT2000 på internett. Internett Aksess as
id:
0005
name:
48/92 "OT Daylight", United Tankers AB
id:
0002
name:
374/91 "OT Daylight", United Tankers AB
id:
0003
name:
1104/92 "OT Daylight", Western Tankers AB
id:
0002
name:
Pettersson, Hans - Poole, Horace, H. - Measurements of submarine daylight
id:
0062
name:
Pettersson, Hans - Submarine Daylight and the Transparency of Sea Water
id:
0003
name:
Alverson, Franklin G. - Daylight Surface Occurrence of Myctophid Fishes Off the Coast of Central America
id:
0001
name:
Alverson, Franklin G. - Daylight Surface Occurrence of Myctophid Fishes Off the Coast of Central America.
id:
0095
name:
Höglund, Hans - Pettersson, Hans - Landberg, Svante - Submarine daylight and the photosynthesis of phyto-plankton
id:
0028
name:
Aarthun, Kjell E. - The natural history of the Hardangerfjord 2. Submarine daylight in a glacier-fed Norwegian Fjord
id:
0015

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total:

58279

total_exact:

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returned:

page:

results:

25 results

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Kontrakt. Rammeavtale, RIT2000 på internett. Internett Aksess as
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0005
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AV/SAT-A-1581/F/Fa/Fas/L0010/0005
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MAPPE
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0002
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BBA/A-3674/6190/D/Dc/L2875/0002
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Bergen byarkiv
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