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Mechanical Turk is crowd sourcing web-service by Amazon Web Services. It provides a marketplace for tasks that can be performed by humans. Requesters publish HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) that are performed by Workers. AWS provides web based API to create and manage HITs.

Amazon Web Services provides a Requester API and several software development kits for accessing the MTurk API via popular programming languages, including Ruby, .NET, Java, and Python.

The Requester API can also be accessed through:

Documentation:

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How to get results from a HIT on sandbox via Mturk API

I have created an XML file to publish a question to MTurk and the HIT is visible in the worker sandbox. A couple of my friends even submitted responses to the HIT, but I'm unable to view the results of this HIT. Here's the code I used to publish the…
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issues with creating permissions in Boto3

In order to send messages via mTurk to SQS the corresponding permission to SendMessage should be given. In documentation they say that the Principal should be mturk-requester.amazonaws.com. So the policy that works looks like: "Principal": { …
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Required fields in Mechanical Turk

Is there any way to make fields required in an Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT? I get some blank responses to the textboxes or radiobuttons in my HTML form and the Amazon's documentation doesn't seem to provide any mechanism for validation.
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How do I install older version of JDK on Mac?

I need to install JDK 5 for testing Amazon mechanical turk APIs (which is not fully compatible with JDK 6). On Apple's website, I can only find the latest JDK. Is there a way to get older versions of JDKs for Mac?
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A Powerful Mechanical Turk Web Interface

I am trying to run a Mechanical Turk Qualtrics based survey and need some features that seem available through the Mechanical Turk API like custom Qualifications but are not accessible from the Requester web site. Are there any third party providers…
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Amazon Mechanical Turk externalSubmit error

I am trying to implement an external question in Amazon Mechanical Turk. Everything is working fine except for the submit input which keeps returning the following error: There was a problem submitting your results for this HIT. This HIT is still…
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How can I create a batch in Mechanical Turk?

I am asking an ExternalQuestion on Amazon Mechanical Turk as follows: for apple_id in apple_ids: question_url = BASE_EXTERNAL_URL + '?' + apple_id QUESTION = ExternalQuestion(external_url=question_url, frame_height=800) create_hit_rs =…
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Does Amazon Mechanical Turk support dynamical content adjustment in HIT?

I need to use AMT HIT to resolve a number of questions. However, there is some dependency in my questions. For example, if they select A with Yes choice, we will direct them to question C otherwise, we direct them to question B. The problem is:…
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Running External HITs on Mechanical Turk - without IFrames

Is there a way to get the HitID, WorkerID, AssignmentID, etc using an External Question system not using IFrames but just a link to an external site, say a survey link etc? This is required to POST the data back to MTurk to handle the…
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Error: AWS Identity and Access Management user accounts cannot be used for Amazon Mechanical Turk

I'm trying to to make a simple API call to the Amazon Mechanical Turk service. The documentations and samples show I should have an AWS AccessKeyId and SecretAccessKey in the config file. I created a new set and granted it a Power User…
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In second batch, exclude workers from first batch

How do I run a second batch on a HIT but ensure I have a new set of workers? I want to make a small change to the HIT and start a new batch, but I don't want any of the workers who participated in the first batch to participate in the second.
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jQuery on MTurk, why does Chrome report "Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL"?

I'm doing a couple of things with jQuery in an MTurk HIT, and I'm guessing one of these is the culprit. I have no need to access the surrounding document from the iframe, so if I am, I'd like to know where that's happening and how to stop…
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Submit a form to two servers

I want to be able to submit forms to two server. Here's why (if there is a better way of doing this, I'm all ears) I have an iframe embedded on mechanical turk. The iframe has a form in it. When a worker submits the form, I need to do two things: I…
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What is the simplest example of accessing Amazon Mechanical Turk?

I am looking for a simple example of accessing the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service in C#. I know there is a SDK for C# but I want to understand the basic mechanics before using that.
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Allow multiple locales as a qualification test in Mechanical Turk

I would like to have a HIT that requires users to be in the U.S. or Canada. I am using the command line tools, but it seems that any qualifications are treated as being all required -- I want a Boolean or. Is this possible? For example, in the…
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