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Norway Archives MCP Server

Name: Norway Archives MCP Server
Author: ianderso

Norway's church books, censuses and scans, National Library books, and place names.

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ianderso-norway-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "norway-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "~/.cache/norway-archives-mcp",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "30",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL": "5",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET": "600",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "",
        "NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR	No	Directory for the on-disk cache and the daily request count.
NORWAY_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT	No	HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read.
NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_INTERVAL	No	Least seconds between two Digitalarkivet requests. Never below 5.
NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DA_DAILY_BUDGET	No	Most live Digitalarkivet requests per UTC day. Cached answers are free.
NORWAY_ARCHIVES_CONTACT	No	An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an archive can reach whoever runs the server.
NORWAY_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR	No	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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