Astronomy Photo of the Day Web Scraper
Requires BeautifulSoup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
Will download all of the full-res photos (>5GB of data, as of 8-31-15) from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html and generate a CSV with metadata.
Photos up to 8-31-15 available here: https://umich.box.com/s/px126wfyx1xtiyis172v85qdi4f92290
Relies on a couple of assumptions:
- Astronomy photo is always the first image on the page
- If there's an tag surrounding the image, that's the link to the full-resolution image
Roughly 1 out of 7 of days do not have an image, but instead a video/SVG/Java Applet/etc. These will not download.