don’t know about Publish or Perish. Their web site says you can run on Mac with a Windows-like environment https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish/os-x
Scholar has improved in that you can download a page at a time (10 max) where it used to be one at a time, but doing it 158 times seems like a nightmare… and on top of that, you still have to “save” them one by one, as far as I can tell. Any other databases you can interrogate, perhaps thru an institution, with which you are associated?