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 2026-11-15T11:04:07Z in 0.234 seconds.

Showing 10 of 58274 results in compact format.

  1. name:
    Tiny Oil
    id:
    0004
  2. name:
    Tiny (?? på skogen)
    id:
    13514
  3. name:
    Hutchinson, R.C.: "Elephant and Castle"
    id:
    0002
  4. name:
    Tiny Oil A/S avd. Reginol
    id:
    0007
  5. name:
    1257 "Tiny", Oddso Rederi A/S
    id:
    0053
  6. name:
    Tiny oil A/S, Tisleia sag & høvleri
    id:
    0002
  7. name:
    Inkasso. The Elephant Brush Co., Ltd. Einar Lehn / Haugen & Co.
    id:
    0009
  8. name:
    B - EU-application. Energy efficient greenhouses incl elephant house Dresden Zoo.
    id:
    0002
  9. name:
    Odell, Daniel K. - Seasonal occurrence of the northern elephant seal, Mirounga Angustirostris, on San Nicolas Island, California
    id:
    0032
  10. name:
    Best, P. B., Meÿer, M. A. & Weeks, R. W. - Interactions between a male elephant seal Mirounga leonia and Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus
    id:
    0016
Show all fields in HTML
total:
58274
total_exact:
yes
returned:
25
page:
1
results:

25 results

  1. urn:
    8e3b8d6c-ac40-454b-8aaa-71c8895e89cd
    name:
    Tiny Oil
    id:
    0004
    path:
    AAB/ARK-2526/H/L0001/0004
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/8e3b8d6c-ac40-454b-8aaa-71c8895e89cd
  2. urn:
    1ae72985-8e30-44df-8dfc-9898e4edbdc9
    name:
    Tiny (?? på skogen)
    id:
    13514
    path:
    AV/RA-PA-0797/U/Ud/L0163/13514
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/1ae72985-8e30-44df-8dfc-9898e4edbdc9
  3. urn:
    2ede9c0b-9369-4c69-aaeb-c3804eb8980a
    name:
    Hutchinson, R.C.: "Elephant and Castle"
    id:
    0002
    path:
    AV/RA-DA-0034/F/Fb/L0067/0002
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/2ede9c0b-9369-4c69-aaeb-c3804eb8980a
  4. urn:
    e2fda39d-8448-49f3-88b7-57e698da0c09
    name:
    Tiny Oil A/S avd. Reginol
    id:
    0007
    path:
    AAB/ARK-1662/D/Dd/L0174/0007
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/e2fda39d-8448-49f3-88b7-57e698da0c09
  5. urn:
    no-BBA_arkiv000001005499
    name:
    1257 "Tiny", Oddso Rederi A/S
    id:
    0053
    path:
    BBA/A-3674/6190/D/Db/L0002/0053
    unit_type:
    Mappe
    institution:
    Bergen byarkiv
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/no-BBA_arkiv000001005499
  6. urn:
    79ee4aca-7f92-4cbe-8767-80ee1714297a
    name:
    Tiny oil A/S, Tisleia sag & høvleri
    id:
    0002
    path:
    AV/RA-S-4086/D/Da/L1492/0002
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/79ee4aca-7f92-4cbe-8767-80ee1714297a
  7. urn:
    e6b0a35a-e305-4432-9794-cbb2e5f42d48
    name:
    Inkasso. The Elephant Brush Co., Ltd. Einar Lehn / Haugen & Co.
    id:
    0009
    path:
    AV/RA-S-3161/D/L0504/0009
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/e6b0a35a-e305-4432-9794-cbb2e5f42d48
  8. urn:
    67aa847e-711d-4e98-b237-3b30a20bb62b
    name:
    B - EU-application. Energy efficient greenhouses incl elephant house Dresden Zoo.
    id:
    0002
    path:
    AV/SAST-A-102660/E/Ea/L0019/0002
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/67aa847e-711d-4e98-b237-3b30a20bb62b
  9. urn:
    d899de9e-e7d6-49e0-bfdd-d68aae0dab5d
    name:
    Odell, Daniel K. - Seasonal occurrence of the northern elephant seal, Mirounga Angustirostris, on San Nicolas Island, California
    id:
    0032
    path:
    AV/SAB-A-100272/1/A/Ab/Abc/L0014/0032
    unit_type:
    DOKUMENT
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/d899de9e-e7d6-49e0-bfdd-d68aae0dab5d
  10. urn:
    fde6b11b-d8af-45d9-b2b9-85cea80ebbca
    name:
    Best, P. B., Meÿer, M. A. & Weeks, R. W. - Interactions between a male elephant seal Mirounga leonia and Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus
    id:
    0016
    path:
    AV/SAB-A-100272/1/A/Ab/Abc/L0007/0016
    unit_type:
    DOKUMENT
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/fde6b11b-d8af-45d9-b2b9-85cea80ebbca
  11. urn:
    40c82370-50a9-4e5f-8970-9dda5df882b8
    name:
    Jong, Wilfried W. de, Nuy-Terwindt, Eugène C. & Versteeg, Marlies - Primary structures of a-crystallin a chains of elephant, whale, hyrax and rhinoceros
    id:
    0058
    path:
    AV/SAB-A-100272/1/A/Ab/Abc/L0010/0058
    unit_type:
    DOKUMENT
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/40c82370-50a9-4e5f-8970-9dda5df882b8
  12. urn:
    62037c85-03bc-4f4e-b60b-5ca70ecc6226
    name:
    Elephantiasis
    id:
    0011
    path:
    AV/RA-S-3734/Fa/L0042/0011
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/62037c85-03bc-4f4e-b60b-5ca70ecc6226
  13. urn:
    1249ce78-a500-4989-9aed-1ca11ae1bcd2
    name:
    Oslo, Elephantapoteket
    id:
    0004
    path:
    NF/Ark-1041/D/L0006/0004
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Norsk folkemuseum
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/1249ce78-a500-4989-9aed-1ca11ae1bcd2
  14. urn:
    5d094ec5-e66d-488d-a4fc-e63be6c0951a
    name:
    Oslo, Elephantapoteket
    id:
    0008
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    NF/Ark-1041/D/L0056/0008
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Norsk folkemuseum
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/5d094ec5-e66d-488d-a4fc-e63be6c0951a
  15. urn:
    510ef76a-cd35-4672-abc5-82149f4f8586
    name:
    Oslo, Elephantapoteket
    id:
    0009
    path:
    NF/Ark-1041/D/L0056/0009
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Norsk folkemuseum
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/510ef76a-cd35-4672-abc5-82149f4f8586
  16. urn:
    1e39deb8-5d89-417f-83a9-d705cf61f876
    name:
    Oslo, Elephantapoteket
    id:
    0006
    path:
    NF/Ark-1041/E/L0009/0006
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Norsk folkemuseum
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/1e39deb8-5d89-417f-83a9-d705cf61f876
  17. urn:
    a397e5b7-2fd1-4236-8025-69a7992c7011
    name:
    Oslo, Elephantapoteket, en morfinsak
    id:
    0004
    path:
    NF/Ark-1041/D/L0041/0004
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Norsk folkemuseum
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/a397e5b7-2fd1-4236-8025-69a7992c7011
  18. urn:
    no-VEMU_arkiv_000000141541
    name:
    Elephanticum Sporddis, bok
    id:
    0004
    path:
    VEMU/A-2778/F/L0001/0004
    unit_type:
    Mappe
    institution:
    Vestfoldarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/no-VEMU_arkiv_000000141541
  19. urn:
    db5c3d08-21df-4105-925d-2a5e08d0c5b1
    name:
    Partinytt
    id:
    0004
    path:
    AAB/ARK-1112/D/Da/L0041/0004
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/db5c3d08-21df-4105-925d-2a5e08d0c5b1
  20. urn:
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    name:
    Partinytt
    id:
    0002
    path:
    AAB/ARK-1112/D/Db/L0063/0002
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/ca87277a-f8b5-48b3-87c1-41cec24831a2
  21. urn:
    3908fec6-8247-4b32-b67a-904d8077bd85
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    id:
    0004
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    OBA/A-40202/X/Xd/L0003/0004
    unit_type:
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    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/3908fec6-8247-4b32-b67a-904d8077bd85
  22. urn:
    ec3e3898-7b23-4325-baa1-0b207a06de05
    name:
    Oslo: 54545 Elephantapoteket (Laboratoriearbeid)
    id:
    0057
    path:
    AV/RA-S-4852/D/Dc/L0547/0057
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/ec3e3898-7b23-4325-baa1-0b207a06de05
  23. urn:
    45e14e86-4a02-42e9-ae0c-74bd3ae04197
    name:
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    id:
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    path:
    AAB/ARK-1112/I/L0046/0001
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/45e14e86-4a02-42e9-ae0c-74bd3ae04197
  24. urn:
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    name:
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    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/05ae1971-3539-4366-b43b-f04def40d46e
  25. urn:
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    name:
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    id:
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    AV/RA-S-2127/Fa/L0411/0022
    unit_type:
    MAPPE
    institution:
    Nasjonalarkivet
    digitized_documents:
    0
    link:
    https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/5da4ad02-e97f-4074-8c83-3d441bc34b83
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How an AI agent should use this page

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

  1. Replace the placeholders in the HTML GET template; remove optional parameters you do not need.
  2. Check types, units, limits and ID formats in the parameter table.
  3. 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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Go to the source page for other operations. Use the JSON template only after the HTML result shows that the parameters and source are correct.