Nationalarchives: Search Records
Nationalarchives via Parse · Government & Public Sector
Search for archival records in the Discovery catalogue. Returns results matching the query keyword, with optional date range and repository filters. Results are returned in relevance order. Search and retrieve records from the UK National Archives Discovery catalogue, including detailed metadata about archival records. Fulfilled by Parse from discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
- b2b-directory
- discovery-nationalarchives-gov-uk
- education
- government-public
- nationalarchives
- parse
- platform-key
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Indexed
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- Government & Public Sector
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/4987305c-bd8a-4973-9efd-fc7f6bc25118/search_records
- Interface artifact
- sha256:22cb5f4fa1f915fc8dbfacfe73fc0ca693d26c289d70d931f4a01e0351c0868a
- Manifest digest
- sha256:a1a7bcd8a4fe83349e8f99e59cab9c7e135071511108566343cb8287701c3673
Request fields
- query (string, required): Search keyword or phrase (e.g. 'world war', 'Churchill', 'navy')
- held_by (string): Filter by holding repository name (e.g. 'The National Archives, Kew')
- end_year (string): Filter results to records covering dates up to this year. Four-digit year (e.g. '1945').
- page_size (integer): Number of results to return per request: Allowed values: 5, 10, 20, 50
- start_year (string): Filter results to records covering dates from this year onwards. Four-digit year (e.g. '1939').
Example queries
- {"query":"world war","held_by":"The National Archives, Kew","end_year":"1945","page_size":"5","start_year":"1939"}