Get list of chemical elements from Wikipedia + Pandas

get_chemical_elements_wikipedia.py

import pandas as pd

#  read wikipedia html table with info on all elemetns, including symbols, names, properties:
df_base = pd.read_html("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements")[0] 
element_full_names = df_base["List of chemical elements"]["Element"][:-1] # last row is comments

element_full_names  =list(element_full_names.apply(lambda x: x[0],axis=1).values) # get individual names out of wrapped list format

# element_full_names.to_csv("names_of_elements.csv",index=False)