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 2026-11-14T21:44:04Z in 0.177 seconds.

Showing 10 of 58348 results in compact format.

name:
Varejournal
id:
Rc
name:
Varejornaler
id:
Cc
name:
Varejournal
id:
Ij
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0001
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0002
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0003
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0004
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0005
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0006
name:
Varejournal
id:
L0007

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total:

58348

total_exact:

yes

returned:

page:

results:

25 results

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Varejournal
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Rc
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AV/SAB-SAB/PA-0417/R/Rc
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SERIE
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Nasjonalarkivet
digitized_documents:
0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/80f3ab45-f203-4fee-8271-f1c0413a4394
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Varejornaler
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Cc
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AV/SAT-A-0010/1/Cc
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SERIE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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norge
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0
link:
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urn:
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Varejournal
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Ij
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BBA/A-1619/I/Ij
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Serie
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Bergen byarkiv
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Varejournal
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0001
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STYKKE
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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Varejournal
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L0003
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0003
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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Varejournal
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L0004
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/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/cea41e41-c8cd-4e57-901e-8debe83d09ab
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Varejournal
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L0005
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0005
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/d33d364e-1b60-4178-afe9-712c90a5f2c7
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Varejournal
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L0006
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0006
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0007
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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Varejournal
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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0
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Varejournal
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L0010
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0010
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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Varejournal
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L0011
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0011
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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Varejournal
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L0012
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AV/SAH-ARK-104/F/Fb/L0012
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STYKKE
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Nasjonalarkivet
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0
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Varejournal
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L0001
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BBA/A-1619/I/Ij/L0001
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Stykke
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Bergen byarkiv
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/no-BBA_arkiv000000584119
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286656ef-b490-49ae-a88d-1503bb2dd08c
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L0006
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IKAH/1263-432/F/Fd/L0006
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STYKKE
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IKA Hordaland
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0
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Matvarejournal
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L0007
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IKAH/1263-432/F/Fd/L0007
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STYKKE
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IKA Hordaland
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0
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https://www.arkivportalen.no/entity/ff00e594-040d-4c40-b3bf-c42aa2e42111
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L0008
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IKAH/1263-432/F/Fd/L0008
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STYKKE
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IKA Hordaland
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0
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L0009
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IKAH/1263-432/F/Fd/L0009
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IKA Hordaland
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0
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L0010
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IKAH/1263-432/F/Fd/L0010
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IKA Hordaland
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0
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Matvarejournal
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L0011
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IKAH/1263-432/F/Fd/L0011
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IKA Hordaland
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0018
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