if i'm logged in, and i pull the entire body of content on the page, and scrape it for the link text prefix, i can get this list

you are talking nonsense, there is code already in the item view that does this, albeit progressively, you just need to pluck that piece out and remove the pagination and attach the action to a button

what will take hours - probably days - is writing a script that does nip-07 auth without being in a web browser