diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 88753e95..1302c587 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ### 0.13.0 (2016-xx-xx xx:xx:xx UTC)
 
 * Change don't fetch caps for disabled nzb providers
+* Change recent search to use centralised title and URL parser for newznab
 
 
 [develop changelog]
diff --git a/sickbeard/providers/newznab.py b/sickbeard/providers/newznab.py
index 4c881fcc..e7265454 100755
--- a/sickbeard/providers/newznab.py
+++ b/sickbeard/providers/newznab.py
@@ -414,14 +414,13 @@ class NewznabProvider(generic.NZBProvider):
     def _title_and_url(self, item):
         title, url = None, None
         try:
-            title = item.findtext('title')
-            url = item.findtext('link')
+            title = ('%s' % item.findtext('title')).strip()
+            for pattern, repl in ((r'\s+', '.'), (r'(?i)-Obfuscated$', '')):
+                title = re.sub(pattern, repl, title)
+            url = str(item.findtext('link')).replace('&', '&')
         except (StandardError, Exception):
             pass
 
-        title = title and re.sub(r'\s+', '.', '%s' % title)
-        url = url and str(url).replace('&', '&')
-
         return title, url
 
     def get_show(self, item, **kwargs):
@@ -859,19 +858,14 @@ class NewznabCache(tvcache.TVCache):
     # overwrite method with that parses the rageid from the newznab feed
     def _parseItem(self, ns, item):
 
-        title = item.findtext('title')
-        url = item.findtext('link')
+        title, url = self._title_and_url(item)
 
         ids = self.parse_ids(item, ns)
 
-        self._checkItemAuth(title, url)
-
         if not title or not url:
             logger.log('The data returned from the %s feed is incomplete, this result is unusable'
                        % self.provider.name, logger.DEBUG)
             return None
 
-        url = self._translateLinkURL(url)
-
         logger.log('Attempting to add item from RSS to cache: %s' % title, logger.DEBUG)
         return self.add_cache_entry(title, url, id_dict=ids)