Hello monks. I have been assigned a task involving taking a list of references, downloading the corresponding pdf, naming the pdf, and uploading it to a private database. The list is huge and I know there must be a good way to write a script to do it for me. I simply have to use google or other tools to find the pdfs, there is no specified way to get the pdfs, but the references should have enough information for a direct match. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about writing a script to do this? Thanks so much !! below is an example reference, the list is a few thousand just like this

1.    Abilez O, Benharash P, Mehrotra M, Miyamoto E, Gale A, Picquet J, Xu C, Zarins C (2006) A novel culture system shows that stem cells can be grown in 3D and under physiologic pulsatile conditions for tissue engineering of vascular grafts. J Surg Res 132:170-178.

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