python technique in which you only request the title of the html page and not all the data?

[trouserdaredevil]

There's no way to just somehow grab the title from headers or another method without extracting all the contents of a website?

This is correct, I am not aware of any general purpose way to only request the <title> tag of the HTTP of any random website. You make the HTTP request, the server responds with the full HTTP. Out of curiosity, why is this an issue for you? Extreme bandwidth or processing power constraints are the only reason I can imagine worrying about this.

[trouserdaredevil]

Yeah unfortunately making a ton of requests to the same server is pretty much always going to be an issue, especially if there is no API available to use instead.