Norway Archives MCP

An MCP server for Norwegian family history that provides access to the National Archives' church books, censuses, and emigrant lists, the National Library's digitized books and newspapers, and Kartverket's place names. It allows agents to search transcriptions, list scanned book pages, and download pages with citations.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by ianderso

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What you can do with it

Search Digitalarkivet's transcribed records by name and historical municipality
List a source's pages in order with permanent ids and links
Search the National Library's books, newspapers, and journals
Get today's spelling, type and coordinates of a farm or hamlet

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.1.0MIT

mcp-registry: io.github.ianderso/norway-archives-mcp@0.1.0 Source repository

Last repository push: Nov 1, 2026, 7:12 AM UTC
Latest release: v0.1.0
Maintenance checked: Nov 2, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

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norway-archives-mcp 0.1.0

pypiuvx

norway-archives-mcp package definition

{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "norway-archives-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR",
      "default": "~/.cache/norway-archives-mcp",
      "description": "Directory for the on-disk cache and the daily request count."
    },
    {
      "name": "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT",
      "default": "30",
      "description": "HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read."
    },
    {
      "name": "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL",
      "default": "5",
      "description": "Least seconds between two Digitalarkivet requests. Never below 5."
    },
    {
      "name": "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET",
      "default": "600",
      "description": "Most live Digitalarkivet requests per UTC day. Cached answers are free."
    },
    {
      "name": "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT",
      "description": "An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an archive can reach whoever runs the server."
    },
    {
      "name": "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
      "description": "An existing folder. When set, the downloads save only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder."
    }
  ]
}

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Maintenance history

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Nov 2, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
Nov 2, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "norway-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "norway-archives-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "norway-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "norway-archives-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "norway-archives-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "norway-archives-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "norway-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "norway-archives-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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