diff --git a/php/class-oembed.php b/php/class-oembed.php
index a063281..0b643b4 100644
--- a/php/class-oembed.php
+++ b/php/class-oembed.php
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ private function parse_url_args( $url ) {
 		// parse query
 		$query = parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_QUERY );
 		$query_args = array();
-		parse_str( $query, $query_args );
+		parse_str( html_entity_decode($query), $query_args );
 
 		// parse fragment
 		$fragment = parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_FRAGMENT );