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<h1 className={"openapi__heading"}>Stop all Butler tasks</h1>

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This endpoint will stop all currently running tasks and remove any scheduled tasks from the queue.


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All tasks were stopped

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Unauthorized - Returned if the X-Plex-Token is missing from the header or query.

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