diff --git a/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js b/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
index 9f9f5f35e..c182e8e2a 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 import debug from 'debug';
+import trimStart from 'lodash/trimStart';
+import reduce from 'lodash/reduce';
+import map from 'lodash/map';
+import each from 'lodash/each';
+import { fromJS } from 'immutable';
 
 import ActionTypes from '../constants/action-types';
 import { saveGraph } from '../utils/file-utils';
 import { modulo } from '../utils/math-utils';
 import { updateRoute } from '../utils/router-utils';
-import { parseQuery } from '../utils/search-utils';
+import { parseQuery, searchTopology } from '../utils/search-utils';
 import { bufferDeltaUpdate, resumeUpdate,
   resetUpdateBuffer } from '../utils/update-buffer-utils';
 import { doControlRequest, getAllNodes, getNodesDelta, getNodeDetails,
@@ -681,3 +686,63 @@ export function toggleTroubleshootingMenu(ev) {
     type: ActionTypes.TOGGLE_TROUBLESHOOTING_MENU
   };
 }
+
+function convertQueryString(paramString) {
+  const pairs = trimStart(paramString, '?').split('&');
+  return reduce(pairs, (result, pair) => {
+    const [k, v] = pair.split('=');
+    result[k] = v;
+    return result;
+  }, {});
+}
+
+function waterfall(series, target, cb) {
+  function next(result) {
+    const fn = series.shift();
+    if (fn) {
+      try {
+        fn(result, next);
+      } catch (e) {
+        cb(e);
+      }
+    } else {
+      cb(null, result);
+    }
+  }
+  next(target, next);
+}
+
+export function translateUrlParamsToViewState(queryString) {
+  return () => {
+    const params = convertQueryString(queryString);
+    if (params.node) {
+      // Get the list of topologies
+      fetch('api/topology').then(response => response.json())
+        .then((topologies) => {
+          // Queue up a list of functions to run, one after the other.
+          const series = map(topologies, topo => (result, cb) => {
+            // Fetch the node for each topology
+            // TODO: Get this buildOptions to work
+            // buildOptionsQuery(topo.options);
+            fetch(`${trimStart(topo.url, '/')}`)
+              .then(res => res.json())
+              .then((json) => {
+                // Append each node in the list to the result object.
+                each(json.nodes, (node, id) => {
+                  result[id] = node;
+                });
+                cb(result);
+              })
+              .catch((e) => { throw e; });
+          });
+          // Run the series
+          waterfall(series, {}, (err, nodes) => {
+            if (err) { throw err; }
+            // const collection = flatten(map(r, ({nodes}) => values(nodes)));
+            const result = searchTopology(fromJS(nodes), { query: params.node });
+            console.log(result.toJS());
+          });
+        });
+    }
+  };
+}
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/components/app.js b/client/app/scripts/components/app.js
index 3361c7285..8424d61e6 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/components/app.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/components/app.js
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ import Topologies from './topologies';
 import TopologyOptions from './topology-options';
 import { getApiDetails, getTopologies } from '../utils/web-api-utils';
 import { focusSearch, pinNextMetric, hitBackspace, hitEnter, hitEsc, unpinMetric,
-  selectMetric, toggleHelp, toggleGridMode } from '../actions/app-actions';
+  selectMetric, toggleHelp, toggleGridMode, translateUrlParamsToViewState
+} from '../actions/app-actions';
 import Details from './details';
 import Nodes from './nodes';
 import GridModeSelector from './grid-mode-selector';
@@ -39,13 +40,13 @@ class App extends React.Component {
   componentDidMount() {
     window.addEventListener('keypress', this.onKeyPress);
     window.addEventListener('keyup', this.onKeyUp);
-
-    getRouter(this.props.dispatch, this.props.urlState).start({hashbang: true});
+    this.props.translateUrlParamsToViewState(window.location.search);
+    getRouter(this.context.store.dispatch, this.props.urlState).start({hashbang: true});
     if (!this.props.routeSet) {
       // dont request topologies when already done via router
-      getTopologies(this.props.activeTopologyOptions, this.props.dispatch);
+      getTopologies(this.props.activeTopologyOptions, this.context.store.dispatch);
     }
-    getApiDetails(this.props.dispatch);
+    getApiDetails(this.context.store.dispatch);
   }
 
   componentWillUnmount() {
@@ -59,11 +60,11 @@ class App extends React.Component {
 
     // don't get esc in onKeyPress
     if (ev.keyCode === ESC_KEY_CODE) {
-      this.props.dispatch(hitEsc());
+      this.context.store.dispatch(hitEsc());
     } else if (ev.keyCode === ENTER_KEY_CODE) {
-      this.props.dispatch(hitEnter());
+      this.context.store.dispatch(hitEnter());
     } else if (ev.keyCode === BACKSPACE_KEY_CODE) {
-      this.props.dispatch(hitBackspace());
+      this.context.store.dispatch(hitBackspace());
     } else if (ev.code === 'KeyD' && ev.ctrlKey && !showingTerminal) {
       toggleDebugToolbar();
       this.forceUpdate();
@@ -157,7 +158,11 @@ function mapStateToProps(state) {
   };
 }
 
+App.contextTypes = {
+  store: React.PropTypes.object.isRequired
+};
 
 export default connect(
-  mapStateToProps
+  mapStateToProps,
+  { translateUrlParamsToViewState }
 )(App);
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/utils/router-utils.js b/client/app/scripts/utils/router-utils.js
index f3f035464..9f222641a 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/utils/router-utils.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/utils/router-utils.js
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 import page from 'page';
-import reduce from 'lodash/reduce';
-import trimStart from 'lodash/trimStart';
 
 import { route } from '../actions/app-actions';
 import { storageGet, storageSet } from './storage-utils';
-import { searchTopology } from './search-utils';
 
 //
 // page.js won't match the routes below if ":state" has a slash in it, so replace those before we
@@ -86,27 +83,9 @@ export function updateRoute(getState) {
   }
 }
 
-export function translateUrlParams(paramString, nodes) {
-  // ?key=value&otherkey=othervalue
-  let state;
-  const pairs = trimStart(paramString, '?').split('&');
-  const params = reduce(pairs, (result, pair) => {
-    const [k, v] = pair.split('=');
-    result[k] = v;
-    return result;
-  }, {});
-  if (params.node) {
-    state = searchTopology(nodes, { query: params.node });
-  }
-
-  return state;
-}
-
-
 export function getRouter(dispatch, initialState) {
   // strip any trailing '/'s.
   page.base(window.location.pathname.replace(/\/$/, ''));
-  console.log(translateUrlParams(window.location.search));
 
   page('/', () => {
     // recover from storage state on empty URL
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/utils/search-utils.js b/client/app/scripts/utils/search-utils.js
index b8f74d047..a4c72552b 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/utils/search-utils.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/utils/search-utils.js
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ function findNodeMatch(nodeMatches, keyPath, text, query, prefix, label, truncat
   if (!prefix || matchPrefix(label, prefix)) {
     const queryRe = makeRegExp(query);
     const matches = text.match(queryRe);
+
     if (matches) {
       const firstMatch = matches[0];
       const index = text.search(queryRe);
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@ export function searchTopology(nodes, { prefix, query, metric, comp, value }) {
       }
     }
   });
+
   return nodeMatches;
 }