How to make a setInterval stop after some time or after a number of actions?

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To stop it after running a set number of times, just add a counter to the interval, then when it reached that number clear it.

e.g.

var timesRun = 0;
var interval = setInterval(function(){
    timesRun += 1;
    if(timesRun === 60){
        clearInterval(interval);
    }
    //do whatever here..
}, 2000);

If you want to stop it after a set time has passed (e.g. 1 minute) you can do:

var startTime = new Date().getTime();
var interval = setInterval(function(){
    if(new Date().getTime() - startTime > 60000){
        clearInterval(interval);
        return;
    }
    //do whatever here..
}, 2000);

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