diff --git a/platypush/plugins/video/torrentcast.py b/platypush/plugins/video/torrentcast.py
index 40c3a37f..c64b4df2 100644
--- a/platypush/plugins/video/torrentcast.py
+++ b/platypush/plugins/video/torrentcast.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import json
 import urllib3
 import urllib.request
+import urllib.parse
 
 from platypush.message.response import Response
 
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@ class VideoTorrentcastPlugin(Plugin):
     def __init__(self, server='localhost', port=9090, *args, **kwargs):
         self.server = server
         self.port = port
+        self.playing = False
 
     def play(self, url):
         request = urllib.request.urlopen(
@@ -18,6 +21,7 @@ class VideoTorrentcastPlugin(Plugin):
             })
         )
 
+        self.playing = True
         return Response(output=request.read())
 
     def pause(self):
@@ -32,8 +36,39 @@ class VideoTorrentcastPlugin(Plugin):
         request = http.request('POST',
             'http://{}:{}/stop/'.format(self.server, self.port))
 
+        self.playing = False
         return Response(output=request.read())
 
+    def search(self, query):
+        request = urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(
+            'https://api.apidomain.info/list?' + urllib.parse.urlencode({
+                'sort': 'seeds',
+                'quality': '720p,1080p,3d',
+                'page': 1,
+                'keywords': query,
+            }),
+            headers = {
+                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 ' +
+                    '(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36'
+            })
+        )
+
+        results = json.loads(request.read())
+        return Response(output=results)
+
+    def search_and_play(self, query):
+        response = self.search(query)
+        if not response.output['MovieList']:
+            logging.info('No torrent results found for {}'.format(query))
+            return Response()
+
+        item = response.output['MovieList'][0]
+        magnet = item['items'][0]['torrent_magnet']
+        logging.info('Playing torrent "{}" from {}'
+                     .format(item['title'], magnet))
+
+        return self.play(magnet)
+
     def voldown(self): return Response(output='Unsupported method')
     def volup(self): return Response(output='Unsupported method')
     def back(self): return Response(output='Unsupported method')