Modifying the unescape part of webpage's title

wantzel.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ TODO:
 """
 
 import feedparser
+import HTMLParser
 import importlib
 from irc import IrcClientFactory
 import MySQLdb
@@ -76,16 +77,8 @@ def get_title(message):
         title = re.search("<title>([^<]+)</title>", content).group(1)
     except:
         pass
-    # Unescaping HTML entities
-    if title:
-        title = re.sub("&gt;|&#062;", ">", title)
-        title = re.sub("&lt;|&#060;", "<", title)
-        title = re.sub("&quot;|&#034;", '"', title)
-        title = re.sub("&apos;|&#039;", "'", title)
-        title = re.sub("&amp;|&#038;", "&", title)
-        title = re.sub("&ndash;|&#8211;", "–", title)
-    # Multiple lines titles are compressed
-    title = re.sub("\n|\r", "", title)
+    # Unescaping HTML entities and removing multiple lines
+    title = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(re.sub("\n|\r", "", title))
     return (title, website)
 
 def is_moderator(name):