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; page: integer, optional, default 1; 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&page=1&offset=0

Replace {query}, {limit}, {page} 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&page=1&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.
`page`	optional	integer	Page number, 1-based (default 1).
`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&page=1&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&page=1&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&page=1&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 2026-10-27T22:22:01Z in 0.853 seconds.

Showing 10 of 59796 results in compact format.

name:
North East Frigg Field. Field Control Station, studies (2)
id:
0001
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0001
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0002
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0003
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0004
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0005
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0006
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0007
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0008
name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0009

Show all fields in HTML

total:

59796

total_exact:

yes

returned:

page:

results:

25 results

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name:
North East Frigg Field. Field Control Station, studies (2)
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AV/SAST-A-101251/F/Fe/L0105/0001
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MAPPE
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0
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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L0001
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0001
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STYKKE
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0
link:
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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L0002
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0002
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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L0003
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0003
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STYKKE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
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0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/9d073c88-852f-4f66-9feb-e7774386b3c0
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0004
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0004
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/36977108-5191-4ff9-9cc1-9907420e4f1f
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0005
path:
AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0005
unit_type:
STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/9b3aa545-702b-4e76-8c3f-19ac35c4da35
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0006
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0006
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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L0007
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0007
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0008
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0008
unit_type:
STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
link:
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urn:
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
id:
L0009
path:
AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0009
unit_type:
STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/b3da59f6-5bd6-4fea-a0d6-ec82eeb49b1d
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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L0010
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0010
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0011
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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STYKKE
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Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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L0014
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STYKKE
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0
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Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0015
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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name:
Offshore Field Manager (OFM) handover
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AV/SAST-A-101681/1/AGaa/L0016
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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STYKKE
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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A48 626 - Tommeliten Field Reports - Field Info
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limit:

offset:

has_more_results:

yes

next_offset:

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How to use the search_archives lookup

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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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