Why would the Amazon Mechanical Turk Web Interface be out of sync with the API?

Question

I've been using the rturk Ruby library to call the Amazon Mechanical Turk API. I'm doing basic things like approving and rejecting. After doing so successfully, I am now looking over the (a) AMT Web UI and (b) an exported CSV. Neither shows the approvals or rejections I just made.

What is going on?

I would not expect a time lag. How can I get to the bottom of this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '12 at 22:05

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I got an answer from James@AWS over at the Mechanical Turk forum: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=398300

Please see the last response in this thread:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=175067&#175067

The short answer is that the web interface doesn't see updates from certain actions taken in the API. This is a known limitation.

From where I sit, this "known limitation" would be better described as a bug.

answered Nov 07 '12 at 22:05

David J.

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4 years later and this issue is still present. How annoying. – JSArrakis Jan 15 '16 at 20:56
4 more years and it's still present – Raphael Schumann Apr 16 '20 at 19:29

Why would the Amazon Mechanical Turk Web Interface be out of sync with the API?

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