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 2026-11-15T01:28:12Z in 0.226 seconds.

Showing 10 of 58385 results in compact format.

name:
Mosvik kommune, fagnemnd for vilt og innlandsfiske
id:
A-5482
name:
Borgermestre og råd i Lübeck erkjenner mottagelse av kong Christian IIs brev angående noen fagne sjørøvere
id:
0004
name:
Fagnemnd
id:
0020
name:
Fagnemnda
id:
0001
name:
Fagnemnd
id:
0004
name:
Fagnemd
id:
0002
name:
Fagnemd
id:
0005
name:
Fagnemd
id:
0004
name:
Fagnemnd
id:
0016
name:
Fagnemnd
id:
0003

Show all fields in HTML

total:

58385

total_exact:

yes

returned:

page:

results:

25 results

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name:
Mosvik kommune, fagnemnd for vilt og innlandsfiske
id:
A-5482
path:
TIKA/A-5482
unit_type:
ARKIV
institution:
IKA Trøndelag
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/6e621a53-8ab3-4d17-8fb0-a4d1a3d5c504
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name:
Borgermestre og råd i Lübeck erkjenner mottagelse av kong Christian IIs brev angående noen fagne sjørøvere
id:
0004
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AV/RA-EA-5965/F29/F29c/L0001/0003/0003/0001/0004
unit_type:
FOTO
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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name:
Fagnemnd
id:
0020
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AFK/0200099/D/Da/L0002/0020
unit_type:
MAPPE
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Akershus fylkeskommune
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AFK/0200137/D/Db/L0008/0001
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MAPPE
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Akershus fylkeskommune
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/0d7e0746-74a7-4d04-abd5-eab4f21444dd
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Fagnemnd
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AIN/NFK-20-128/D/Da/L0003/0004
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MAPPE
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/82425461-8ed0-4b55-b731-6db4c86b5d2c
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AIN/NFK-20-201/D/Da/L0005/0002
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MAPPE
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Arkiv i Nordland
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Fagnemd
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AIN/NFK-20-206/D/Da/L0004/0005
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MAPPE
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Arkiv i Nordland
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Arkiv i Nordland
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MAPPE
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Arkiv i Nordland
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AIN/NFK-23-108/D/Da/L0030/0003
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MAPPE
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Arkiv i Nordland
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MAPPE
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0
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MAPPE
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0
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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Fagnevnd
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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MAPPE
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