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.

ParameterRequirementJSON typeDescription
queryrequiredstringFree-text search, e.g. an organisation, topic or place.
limitoptionalintegerResults per page. Unit: items. Through this API: default 25, maximum 100.
offsetoptionalintegerNumber 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.

Type: string. Free-text search, e.g. an organisation, topic or place.
Type: integer. Results per page. Unit: items. Through this API: default 25, maximum 100.

Result

Source: National Archives of Norway. Retrieved 2026-11-14T10:11:23Z in 0.312 seconds.

Showing 10 of 85640 results in compact format.

  1. name:
    Magnus Haavelsrud
    id:
    AKT-100
  2. name:
    Magnus Haavelsrud
    id:
    AKT-100
  3. name:
    Jansen, Gerard
    id:
    P-1480
  4. name:
    Anaerobic Fish Spoilage by Bacteria I. Biochemical Changes in Herring Extracts .
    id:
    0001
  5. name:
    Pa 1477 - Bayly, David Robert
    id:
    A-101091
  6. name:
    "In chain "mekanisme
    id:
    0005
  7. name:
    British Oxygen Company ( BOC )
    id:
    AKT-55
  8. name:
    4242 - TMN (Total Marine Norsk AS) participation file taux de change
    id:
    0003
  9. name:
    Conseil Permanent International Pour L'Exploration de la Mer - Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions Volume LXVIII. Fluctuations in the abundance of the various year-classes of food fishes.
    id:
    0010
  10. name:
    Technology Research in Lithuania
    id:
    0008
Show all fields in HTML
total:
85640
total_exact:
yes
returned:
25
page:
1
results:

25 results

  1. urn:
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    name:
    Magnus Haavelsrud
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    UBIT/AKT-100
    unit_type:
    Person
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    NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
    digitized_documents:
    0
    history:
    Magnus Haavelsrud is professor of education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His work deals with the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociol...
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    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/no-NTNU_arkiv000000031966
  2. urn:
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    name:
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    AKT-100
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    UBIT/AKT-100
    unit_type:
    Person
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    NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
    digitized_documents:
    0
    history:
    Magnus Haavelsrud is professor of education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His work deals with the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociol...
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/4da41b50-07da-46d4-8c96-c7dac38a7624
  3. urn:
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    name:
    Jansen, Gerard
    id:
    P-1480
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    VID/P-1480
    unit_type:
    Person
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    digitized_documents:
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    history:
    "Gerard Jansen, living in the Netherlands, was a medical oficer at the Chogoria Hospital of Presbyterian Church in East Africa from 1990-1996 and in the last semester of 1998. From 1959 to 1970 he served as a medical missionary with the Dutch Reformed Church in the Transkei Mission." [etter alt å dø...
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  4. urn:
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    name:
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    digitized_documents:
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  5. urn:
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    name:
    Pa 1477 - Bayly, David Robert
    id:
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    digitized_documents:
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    history:
    Born in Catford in South East London. Father Paul W. Bayly, shipping clerk in a firm of oil and seed brokers, mother Alice Violet Bayly. Family life centred on the local Baptist church. Still actively involved in church life. Education: City University London - BSc (Hons) (1962 - 1966), City Univers...
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  6. urn:
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    name:
    "In chain "mekanisme
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    0005
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  7. urn:
    2c11a065-29ce-4507-9daa-6ab41128d01f
    name:
    British Oxygen Company ( BOC )
    id:
    AKT-55
    path:
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    unit_type:
    Virksomhet
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    Kraftmuseet
    country:
    STORBRIT. OG N.-IRL.
    digitized_documents:
    0
    history:
    British Oxygen Company (BOC) kjøpte i 1937 alle aksjene i Odda Smelteverk, og sikret smelteverket i Odda bedre salg og utvikling. BOC solgte til Phil.Brothers i 1999. Fra Wikipedia 2018: The BOC Group was founded in 1886 and became a part of the german Linde group in 2006 Headquarters at Guildford,...
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/2c11a065-29ce-4507-9daa-6ab41128d01f
  8. urn:
    6cecd9a0-7be3-4dfe-808a-7206474428e5
    name:
    4242 - TMN (Total Marine Norsk AS) participation file taux de change
    id:
    0003
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    AV/SAST-A-101251/F/Fo/L0045/0003
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    MAPPE
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    digitized_documents:
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    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/6cecd9a0-7be3-4dfe-808a-7206474428e5
  9. urn:
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    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/d6e17e7d-92fa-42bc-9dc5-57298a175b17
  10. urn:
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    name:
    Technology Research in Lithuania
    id:
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    NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket
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    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/6e21dc59-0ce7-4265-8f0d-c3e4a69691d2
  11. urn:
    nb-NLM_arkiv000000000458
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    Local Landmarks NIKE-AJAX Missiles...Right in our own backyard
    id:
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    Norsk luftfartsmuseum
    digitized_documents:
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    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/nb-NLM_arkiv000000000458
  12. urn:
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  13. urn:
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  14. urn:
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