diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 4df0a48..d0f0bf4 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -20,10 +20,16 @@ To access the WAQI project API it’s necessary to register at http://aqicn.org/
           aqi-use-cache t)
 #+END_SRC
 
-The simplest way to view AQI info is with =M-x aqi-report= which displays air quality info for your algorithmically derived location  (equivalent to the location ="here"=) or the name of a place. A place can be the name of a city (in which case the nearest monitoring station is used) or the name of specific monitoring station.
+The simplest way to view AQI info is with =M-x aqi-report= which displays air quality info for your algorithmically derived location  (equivalent to the location "here") or the name of a place. A place can be the name of a city (in which case the nearest monitoring station is used) or the id of specific monitoring station.
 
+By name…
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-(aqi-report "Taipei")
+(aqi-report "Ulaanbaatar")
+#+END_SRC
+
+By id…
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+(aqi-report "@7397")
 #+END_SRC
 
 A detailed report is displayed by default and a single line summary can be provided by using the keyword ='brief=
diff --git a/aqi.el b/aqi.el
index bda8a4e..e0148cb 100644
--- a/aqi.el
+++ b/aqi.el
@@ -158,6 +158,21 @@
       (aqi--city-cache-get city)
     (aqi-request city)))
 
+(defun aqi-search (name)
+  "Search for the nearest stations (if any) matching a given NAME."
+ (request
+    (format "https://api.waqi.info/search/?keyword=%s&" name)
+    :sync t
+    :params `(("token" . ,aqi-api-key))
+    :parser 'json-read
+    :success (cl-function
+	      (lambda (&key data &allow-other-keys)
+		(pcase (assoc-default 'status data)
+		  ("ok" (message "Search: %s" (assoc-default 'data data)))
+		  ("error" (message "Search error: %s" (assoc-default 'data data))))))
+    :error (cl-function
+	    (lambda (&rest args &key error-thrown &allow-other-keys)
+	      (message "WAQI error: %s" error-thrown)))))
 
 ;; printing, formatting and presenting.