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, 1-100 (default 25). 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 2026-11-02T09:02:56Z in 2.363 seconds.

Showing 10 of 58338 results in compact format.

name:
2. Acadia.
id:
L0003
name:
A - Acadia
id:
L0001
name:
Acadia - Al
id:
L0002
name:
Cadis A/S
id:
0003
name:
S/S "Arcadia"
id:
0016
name:
Acadia.
id:
0002
name:
Acadia.
id:
0002
name:
Acadia
id:
0001
name:
Acadia
id:
0003
name:
Acadia
id:
0002

Show all fields in HTML

total:

58338

total_exact:

yes

returned:

page:

results:

25 results

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name:
2. Acadia.
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L0003
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AV/RA-S-3273/G/Gb/L0003
unit_type:
STYKKE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/331bb4a0-7da3-4f31-96bd-6805e87766e0
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name:
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L0001
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AV/RA-S-4523/1/E/Ef/L0001
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
link:
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name:
Acadia - Al
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L0002
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AV/RA-S-4523/1/E/Ef/L0002
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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0003
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AV/RA-S-1724/1/D/Da/L0346/0016
unit_type:
MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/2fe8f281-1375-46b1-a061-0da65e77dbb8
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d3d56912-dee5-4a32-aa75-1a22e6bb7251
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Acadia.
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0002
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AV/RA-S-2081/G/Gg/L0001/0002
unit_type:
MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/d3d56912-dee5-4a32-aa75-1a22e6bb7251
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Acadia.
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AV/RA-S-2081/G/Gh/L0001/0002
unit_type:
MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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AV/RA-S-2113/Db/L0002/0001
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MAPPE
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Acadia
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0003
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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0
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0003
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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Ground rule: Navigate with HTML GET links to keep explanations and relationships. Use the page's JSON alternative only when concrete values must be extracted, compared or computed.

How to use the search_archives lookup

Replace the placeholders in the HTML GET template; remove optional parameters you do not need.
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Follow linked results to canonical pages before combining sources.

Misreading to avoid: An empty list means "no results for this lookup". An error message or unavailable source does not mean the data does not exist.

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