diff --git a/platypush/plugins/media/__init__.py b/platypush/plugins/media/__init__.py
index 8de8862bc9..eaa5f1fa10 100644
--- a/platypush/plugins/media/__init__.py
+++ b/platypush/plugins/media/__init__.py
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ import subprocess
 import tempfile
 import threading
 
-import urllib.request
-import urllib.parse
+from platypush.plugins.media.search import YoutubeMediaSearcher
 
 from platypush.config import Config
 from platypush.context import get_plugin, get_backend
@@ -274,6 +273,10 @@ class MediaPlugin(Plugin):
     def set_volume(self, volume):
         raise self._NOT_IMPLEMENTED_ERR
 
+    @action
+    def status(self):
+        raise self._NOT_IMPLEMENTED_ERR
+
     @action
     def search(self, query, types=None, queue_results=False, autoplay=False,
                search_timeout=_default_search_timeout):
@@ -447,29 +450,10 @@ class MediaPlugin(Plugin):
             if item.get('id', {}).get('kind') == 'youtube#video'
         ]
 
-    def _youtube_search_html_parse(self, query):
-        query = urllib.parse.quote(query)
-        url = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + query
-        response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
-        html = response.read().decode('utf-8')
-        results = []
-
-        while html:
-            m = re.search('(<a href="(/watch\?v=.+?)".+?yt-uix-tile-link.+?title="(.+?)".+?>)', html)
-            if m:
-                results.append({
-                    'url': 'https://www.youtube.com' + m.group(2),
-                    'title': m.group(3)
-                })
-
-                html = html.split(m.group(1))[1]
-            else:
-                html = ''
-
-        self.logger.info('{} YouTube video results for the search query "{}"'
-                         .format(len(results), query))
-
-        return results
+    @staticmethod
+    def _youtube_search_html_parse(query):
+        # noinspection PyProtectedMember
+        return YoutubeMediaSearcher()._youtube_search_html_parse(query)
 
     def stream_youtube_to_fifo(self, url):
         if self._youtube_proc:
diff --git a/platypush/plugins/media/search/youtube.py b/platypush/plugins/media/search/youtube.py
index 18c5f9d295..7fa8a6fbfb 100644
--- a/platypush/plugins/media/search/youtube.py
+++ b/platypush/plugins/media/search/youtube.py
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ import urllib.parse
 import urllib.request
 
 from platypush.context import get_plugin
+# noinspection PyProtectedMember
 from platypush.plugins.media.search import MediaSearcher
 
+
 class YoutubeMediaSearcher(MediaSearcher):
     def search(self, query, **kwargs):
         """