Astronomy Pic of the Day Grabber

This is a rework of an older script I made which did the same, but was really nasty and I doubt that this is any better *grin* Anyways it grabs the current APOD and outputs it to the cwd of where you called the script. It dates the output file as: apod(yyyy)(mm)(dd), where yyyy,mm,dd is the month day year respectively, and no the parenthesis aren't in the filename.

Edit: Changed the date format from month,day,year to year,month,day to make sorting alot easier.
Pointed out by sauoq

Edit2: Updated URI, added png.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::URL;
use LWP::Simple qw/get/;

my $TOP = "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/";
my $IMGPATH = 'image/\d{4}/\w+.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)';
my @timearray = gmtime();
my $time = sprintf "%04d%02d%02d", ($timearray[5]+1900), ($timearray[4
+]+1), ($timearray[3]);

my $content = get $TOP or die "Cannot get APOD Page\n";
my ($imgurl) = $content =~ m!($IMGPATH)!i;
$imgurl = url($imgurl,$TOP)->abs;

my $picture = get $imgurl or die "Cannot grab image: $!\n";

open(OUT, ">apod$time\.$2") or die "Cannot write to file: $!\n";
binmode(OUT);
print OUT $picture;
close OUT;
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