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 2026-11-03T04:38:56Z in 1.920 seconds.

Showing 10 of 58281 results in compact format.

name:
Inside Reality AS
id:
0001
name:
Etablererstipend gitt av SND - ESTIP. Nettverkskreditt. Inside Reality AS
id:
0003
name:
4712 Fynd
id:
0006
name:
7586 Fynd
id:
0007
name:
Schmidt, Ulla: "Normativity and reality: a study of the ethical demand in human life-reality, with special regard to the ethical theory of Trutz Rendtorff"
id:
0001
name:
Holm, Gösta_Nordbor i Amerika före Columbus. Äkta fynd och falska
id:
0021
name:
Den gjendøptes bys forlystelser - Studenteruka åpnet med fynd og klem
id:
0009
name:
Den gjendøptes bys forlystelser - Studenteruka åpnet med fynd og klem
id:
0042
name:
"Det var i nittenfem-det var med fynd og klem" Norsk Hydro 75år. Oslo Konserthus
id:
L0221
name:
Virtual reality
id:
0004

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total:

58281

total_exact:

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results:

25 results

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caef572b-70cc-4459-9fc8-971bce24c6f4
name:
Inside Reality AS
id:
0001
path:
AV/SAB-A-100614 /D/Da/L0234/0001
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/caef572b-70cc-4459-9fc8-971bce24c6f4
urn:
99000822-5ae5-4cb6-9e3f-468768b46094
name:
Etablererstipend gitt av SND - ESTIP. Nettverkskreditt. Inside Reality AS
id:
0003
path:
AV/SAB-A-100614 /D/Da/L0354/0003
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/99000822-5ae5-4cb6-9e3f-468768b46094
urn:
b9ce0f42-7be1-44bd-9e67-9c4d32142630
name:
4712 Fynd
id:
0006
path:
AV/RA-S-4998/F/Fa/L0392/0006
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/b9ce0f42-7be1-44bd-9e67-9c4d32142630
urn:
0cdc2285-ac42-46ee-8ffe-0f92f3e65d3d
name:
7586 Fynd
id:
0007
path:
AV/RA-S-4998/F/Fa/L0392/0007
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/0cdc2285-ac42-46ee-8ffe-0f92f3e65d3d
urn:
f06b928f-5148-48e1-9e07-5bdbf83cbd7a
name:
Schmidt, Ulla: "Normativity and reality: a study of the ethical demand in human life-reality, with special regard to the ethical theory of Trutz Rendtorff"
id:
0001
path:
TMF/A-1006/G/Ge/L0005/0001
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
MF vitenskapelig høyskole
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/f06b928f-5148-48e1-9e07-5bdbf83cbd7a
urn:
ed65790f-e90e-40a4-9c11-3c2711921561
name:
Holm, Gösta_Nordbor i Amerika före Columbus. Äkta fynd och falska
id:
0021
path:
SPR/A-0003/L/L0019/0021
unit_type:
MAPPE
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Språksamlingane Universitetsbiblioteket, UIB
digitized_documents:
0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/ed65790f-e90e-40a4-9c11-3c2711921561
urn:
fdc23f34-f94a-4342-8b3b-191fe6c4f776
name:
Den gjendøptes bys forlystelser - Studenteruka åpnet med fynd og klem
id:
0009
path:
TRKO/PA-1176/Z/L0001/0009
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Trondheim byarkiv
country:
norge
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/fdc23f34-f94a-4342-8b3b-191fe6c4f776
urn:
f454e7fe-7307-4faa-b91f-cc5c3c772c7e
name:
Den gjendøptes bys forlystelser - Studenteruka åpnet med fynd og klem
id:
0042
path:
TRKO/PA-1176/Z/L0001/0042
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Trondheim byarkiv
country:
norge
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/f454e7fe-7307-4faa-b91f-cc5c3c772c7e
urn:
2697d014-a1fa-4a31-bc3d-a0c58d8567d8
name:
"Det var i nittenfem-det var med fynd og klem" Norsk Hydro 75år. Oslo Konserthus
id:
L0221
path:
AV/RA-PA-1728/U/Ud/L0221
unit_type:
STYKKE
institution:
Nasjonalarkivet
country:
norge
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/2697d014-a1fa-4a31-bc3d-a0c58d8567d8
urn:
0daee7e9-0f81-4b73-b1c8-45c065c75ac8
name:
Virtual reality
id:
0004
path:
AAMA/PA-3150/U/U01/U01b/L0068/0004
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Aust-Agder museum og arkiv, avd. KUBEN
digitized_documents:
0
link:
https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/0daee7e9-0f81-4b73-b1c8-45c065c75ac8
urn:
d336b106-06ee-4498-971a-8881ea0135af
name:
Reality-show
id:
0005
path:
OBA/A-70282/F/Fa/L0032/0005
unit_type:
MAPPE
institution:
Oslo byarkiv
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0
link:
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ba8dcbef-1239-4c88-b073-479384409387
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Virtual Reality-møte
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0001
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AV/RA-PA-1322/U/Ub/L0082/0001
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MAPPE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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UBIT/A-0298/G/Gb/L0002
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/7a69e234-930f-44a6-8f83-de9b8622e27c
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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L0003
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UBIT/A-0298/G/Gb/L0003
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/7e18b339-3d7a-45bd-9ba1-c80f33e178a4
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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L0004
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UBIT/A-0298/G/Gb/L0004
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/e5ba1cb0-3b7d-427a-97ef-a1c7d7e354e4
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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UBIT/A-0298/G/Gb/L0005
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/4a6f8e5e-a78c-4207-ad28-6ea077169cf5
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/3d9f69ef-add1-4a05-a74b-a3a3d95bbbe3
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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UBIT/A-0298/G/Gb/L0007
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STYKKE
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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Knowledge, Truth and Reality
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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Nasjonalarkivet
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