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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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Add AnswerFormatRegex constraint to Mechanical Turk item using BOTO

I am trying to create some automated HIT's in Amazon Mechanical Turk using boto and am interested in adding an AnswerFormatRegex restriction to a question. How can this constraint be added to a question? A snippet of how I am coding the questions is…
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Setting up the Java variables in Ubuntu

I am trying to install Amazon Mturk command line tool on Ubuntu 13.10 ( 32-bit) system. After setting the access secrete and access identifier in mturk.properties file, I ran the getBalance.sh file and below is the output. ./getBalance.sh You must…
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mturk on external website

I just had a quick question on making a survey on an external link as a HIT on Amazon Mechanical Turk. If a user completes the survey on the external webpage and submit the survey code on the MTurk interface, how do I, as the requester, guarantee…
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Amazon Mechanical Turk - ExternalHit Sample

I'm tyring to run the ExternalHit Sample that comes with the Command Line Tools installer. For the .question file I have the following ...
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CrowdFlower: if-ony logic

I am trying to set up a task in CrowdFlower using their CML language. I keep getting the following error with the only-if logic. contains only-if logic that references a missing field This is the code.
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Mechanical Turk: how to avoid HITs from different batches to be collapsed

I have a problem with the distribution of HITs from different batches. The situation is the following: I have 3 batches with 17 HITs each, and I prepared 3 different templates. What I would like to do is that whenever a worker accepts my HITs, he…
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Online beta testing, how to record viewed content

I'm setting up a beta testing/QA system to direct Mechanical Turk workers to client web pages for review. The Turk worker sees a questionnaire HTML page on Mechanical Turk. It contains: a target URL for them to visit a question form about this…
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An elegant way of page-to-page iterating through boto.resultset.ResultSet

Is there an elegant way of paging through boto.resultset.ResultSet, e.g.: amt = boto.mturk.connection.MTurkConnection() qualid = "XXX" quals = amt.get_qualifications_for_qualification_type( qualid, page_size=100, page_number=1 ) # quals becomes…
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Edit an in-progress AWS Mechanical Turk Campaign

I have started a mechanical Turk campaign where I have forgotten to include instructions to users what to do if a requested item cannot be found. I'd like to modify the HTML of all the HITs to say, "If X is not found, please put 'NOT…
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Mechanical Turk: Categorization project via Request UI diffictulties

I am a newbie in MTurk, and I am trying to create a very simple Categorization Project via their Requester UI (rather then the API). Each batch I use has 10 items (question and possible answer). I have searched their documentation and forums with…
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boto HTMLQuestion create-hit -- should see HIT in Requester sandbox?

I've submitted a HTMLQuestion using the boto/create-hit API. It returned a valid response and I see it if I use boto to list my HITs. However, I don't see the HIT in the Manage Batches page of the requester sandbox. Am I missing something?
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using botov1.8d to work with Amazon MechanicalTurk

I'm new to amazon MTurk, and I'm trying to create hits and fetch results through boto v-1.8d. However, this has brought up a lot of issues and I'm wondering if this is because I'm using an older version of boto. Note: I can't use the latest release…
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Mechanical Turk: get workers to complete all HITs in a batch

I am setting up an experiment on AMT. I have batches of 24 HITs. To keep my design balanced, I would like workers to be able to submit only once they completed all the HITs in a batch. I am aware that a possible solution would be to create one HIT…
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Boto interfacing to Amazon Mechanical turk - Hit creation

I'm new to amazon and python, so forgive me this is a easy fix. Upon creating a hit from boto I get the following error: boto.mturk.connection.MTurkRequestError: MTurkRequestError: 200 OK
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Is there a way to get details on a HITType given the HITTypeId?

I'm looking to get details on a HITType in Amazon Mechanical Turk, specifically the parameter values used when it was created. Is there an API call or a command line tool command that will let me see the things like the title, description, reward,…
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