Memory Consumption Issues in when looping through a list of WebElement

[Khald1998]

I'm running into memory issues with this code - the VM ram gets completely exhausted during the table row processing loop.

The Problem:
In extract_listing, when I loop through rows , memory usage spikes until the VM runs out. Each iteration processes a row using extract_info.

Code snippet:

def extract_listing(rows):
    listing = []
    for row in rows:
        listing_info = extract_info(row)
        if listing_info:
            listing.append(listing_info)
    return listing

def extract_info(row):
    cols = row.find_elements('td')
    link = cols[0].find_element('a')
    
    name = link.text.strip()
    full_text = cols[0].text.strip()
    listing_id = full_text.replace(name, '').strip()
    
    return {
        'listing_id': listing_id,
        'listing_name': name,
        'listing_link': link.get_attribute('href'),
        'last_price': float(cols[2].text.replace(',', ''))
    }

The memory leak seems to happen during the WebElement iteration. Each row WebElement might be holding onto more memory than expected, or there's some accumulation I'm not sure.

Any known fixes or alternative approaches I should try?

Thanks for any tips!