Is there a good tool to get titles of lists of references?

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In summary, the speaker is frustrated by the lack of titles in reference lists of papers, making it difficult to compare and find relevant articles. They are wondering if there is a tool that can automatically search and return reference lists with titles included. However, this may require a paid service or a Google developer API key due to changes in internet security. The speaker finds it surprising that omitting titles in references is now acceptable.
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I've noticed that a lot of papers these days don't include titles in their references. This grates on me, since it makes an article hard to use to survey what references are often used in a particular area. Often, what I want to do is retrieve a dozen articles in a field and compare their reference lists for references that cover a particular overlapping topic that each of those papers touch on. Not having titles keeps me from knowing which papers are actually relevant to me until I search for each one individually.

So, if I'm presented with one or more reference lists with dozens of entries of the form:
[##] M. Foo and H.B. Bar, Phys. Rev. E ##(#), #### (####).

Is there a tool that I can just paste a whole list of references into which will automatically do all the searches and return a proper reference list with the titles of all the articles, textbooks, etc. that should have been there in the first place? Keeping the same numbers as the original list, of course.
 
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You are basically asking for the ability to run automated queries on a database of every single journal article (at least in the specific subject area), and I suspect that's a service you will have to pay for, if it exists.

You can, of course, do it one reference at a time via Google Scholar, but automating the process probably requires a Google developer API key.
 
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It's shocking to me that it is acceptable now to omit the title in a reference.
I used to be able to automate internet searches, but my last (casual) attempt failed. I think the changes for security (HTTPS?) have made my old techniques out of date.
 
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