Stop a script that is still running.

A script keeps running after you close the page. Stop is how you end it. The run then reads stopped.

Stop cancels the script on the machine, including a program it started underneath. A finished run has no stop button.

Open Scripts › runs

The runs tab is the default. A row that is still going shows running and a stop button. Who is signed in has been going on Accounts server since 03:50. Closing this page leaves it running. The note above the table says so, and links here.

Scripts runs tab with Who is signed in still running and a stop button — One run is still going. Stop has not been pressed.

Press stop, then confirm

Press stop. The label turns into a confirm. Press it again to stop the script on the machine. This shot stops on the confirm, so the run is still going. After the second press the row reads stopped. A run that finished on its own reads done or failed, and the stop button is gone.

Scripts runs tab with the stop button armed, asking to confirm — Stop is armed. The second press has not happened.

Starting one is Run a saved script. Keeping only finished rows is Show script runs that have finished. A script that starts itself is Run a script on a schedule. Asking what a finished run did is Ask what a script run did. Taking the script out of the library is Remove a script from the library.