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Norway Archives MCP server

by ianderso·io.github.ianderso/norway-archives-mcp·v0.1.0
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Norway's church books, censuses and scans, National Library books, and place names.

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Norway Archives tools (13)

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  • cache_status

    Report this session's requests, by service, the Digitalarkivet budget, and cache use.

  • da_download_page

    Download one scanned page from Digitalarkivet so it can be read.

  • da_get_record

    Read one transcribed record: its fields, everyone named in it, and its scanned page.

  • da_get_source

    Describe one source and map its scans: archive reference, images, where each list starts.

  • da_list_pages

    List a source's scanned pages in order, with each page's permanent id and permalink.

  • da_search_persons

    Search Digitalarkivet's transcribed records for a person.

  • da_search_sources

    Find sources (church books, censuses, probate records) by place, period and list.

  • municipalities

    Look up Digitalarkivet's historical municipalities and their numbers. Makes no network call.

  • nb_download_page

    Download one page image of a National Library item that is open where you are.

  • nb_get_page

    Read one page of a National Library item: its OCR text where it is open, and its citation.

  • nb_search

    Search the National Library of Norway's books, newspapers and more.

  • nb_search_inside

    Find the pages of one book or newspaper that mention a word, with snippets.

  • place_names

    Find farms, hamlets and other places in Kartverket's official place-name register.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-13 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan11 source files scanned25/25
  • –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
  • Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Overall 92/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Norway Archives compares

Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
92/100
higher than 95% of 48,255 servers
Tools
13
the typical server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Downloads a week
102
more than 63% of 12,191 servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 13 read

Install Norway Archives in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add norway-archives-mcp -- uvx norway-archives-mcp
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What the publisher says

From the Norway Archives repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

norway-archives-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.ianderso/norway-archives-mcp -->

An MCP server for Norwegian family history: the National Archives' church books, censuses and emigrant lists and their scans, the National Library's books and newspapers, and today's official place names.

(the National Archives of Norway), holds the parish registers (ministerialbøker and klokkerbøker), the censuses of 1801–1920, emigrant protocols, probate records and much more. Some of it is transcribed and searchable; far more is scanned and can only be read page by page. The server does both: it searches the transcriptions, maps a scanned book's lists (baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, in- and out-migration) to image numbers, and downloads a page with its permanent id.

  • Digitalarkivet, run by Nasjonalarkivet

digitised nearly every Norwegian book and newspaper, including the bygdebøker, the farm-by-farm local histories genealogists live in. Many open only from Norwegian addresses, but a search still tells you which page a name is on.

  • Nasjonalbiblioteket (the National Library) has

today's spelling, type and coordinates of a farm or hamlet.

  • Kartverket's place-name register gives

It works the way a careful genealogist does. The scanned page is the evidence. A transcription is a lead (most church-book transcriptions were keyed by contractors for Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch), and a search that finds nothing has only searched what was transcribed. Every page comes back with its source, archive reference, image number and permanent link, so the citation points at the archive, not at this server.

Nothing here writes anywhere but your own disk, and nothing here keeps a family tree.

Tools

The server publishes thirteen tools. All but the two downloads are read-only; those create one new file each and never overwrite one.

A typical path through an untranscribed list (confirmations, say):

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Norway Archives: common questions

Is Norway Archives MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Norway Archives safety report
How do I install Norway Archives?
It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does Norway Archives need an API key?
No secret keys are declared. It reads 6 settings from the environment.
Is Norway Archives maintained?
The last commit was 24 days ago (2026-10-11). The latest release is v0.1.0.
How does Norway Archives compare with other MCP servers?
safety score 92/100 (higher than 95% of 48,255 servers); tools 13 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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