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

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…
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Amazon turk - where does the data go?

Aloha - i would like to create an Amazon Turk task to collect information on hotel companies in Hawaii. One quesion (that i was unable to get ansewred through the MTurk FAQ/website) I have a form on my host that will allow the turkers to complete…
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Using JS with Amazon Turk?

I've been asked to build a mturk HIT with some scripted behavior, e.g. show and hide content at different time intervals (let's say, for example, that a question would display an image for 5 seconds and then hide it). A couple questions: Is there a…
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Can I Grab A Mechanical Turker's Time Zone (Without Javascript?)

I have completed my first Mechanical Turk HIT as a requester. The organization I am building this for would like to extend my HIT to ask the Turkers questions about time. However, for any of these time questions to make sense, we'd like to know what…
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List all hitTypes through the mturk API?

Is there a way to list all my HIT types (not HITs or assignments) using the mturk api? I can't find any documentation on this. I'm using python, so it'd be nice if boto supported this query.
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Two sets of answer choices for CrowdFlower/Mechanical Turk

Half the questions in my survey will have one set of multiple-choice options (call this A); the other half will have another set of multiple-choice options (call this B). How can I do this on CrowdFlower? Should I create a column called "answer…
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Mturk api to submit hits

Is there is any api available to submit hit on muturk. Actually I am planning to create an app that will have all the required field of specific hit and worker the hit and the app will submit the hit.
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good method for approving mechanical turk participants?

Does anyone have a good method for approving people who took part in a survey on survey monkey, and who were recruited through mechanical turk? I filter out people who did not pay attention during the survey by asking questions with obvious answers…
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excel and mechanical turk

I am trying to search for identical strings in different columns and cells of the same excel worksheet. Specifically, i am trying to use it to approve people for mechanical turk. I copy and paste a list of people's MTurk ID's into the downloaded…
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can I validate input on MTurk?

I've written a HIT on mturk asking people for domain suggestions. Is there any way to ensure that the domain has valid syntax at the time of entry or submission?
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turkee: undefined method `reverse_merge!' for nil:NilClass

In trying to get turkee working, I'm getting an undefined methodreverse_merge!' for nil:NilClass` error. My Code: class MechanicalTurksController < ApplicationController def new @mechanical_turk = MechanicalTurk.new @disabled =…
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Extending a rails plugin

I need to extend a plugin by overwriting a method and adding one of my own. So far I have followed Strictly Untyped's guide for this but I haven't had much success. Basically there is a file in the initializer folder that loads the extension from…
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Number of participants in Mturk?

I'm an absolute newbie in Mturk,and I'm definitely not a person who understands smth in programming. thus,I would appreciate a lot a simple answer on my question saying which button and where I should press(this is an upper limit of my computer…
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Mechanical Turk Failure to Parse HTML - how best to check it?

When trying a test batch of a simple HIT, I discovered that the submit button does not work. I then noticed that when looking at the Layout ID it says that There was an error parsing the HTML5 data in your hit template. This was just a quickie…
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Mechanical Turk without Masters (Categorization on Sandbox)

I'm trying to test out my HIT on Mechanical Turk Sandbox with the categorization layout. Everything works fine and I can deploy my HIT, except that I'm unable to figure out how to remove the requirement that workers must be Masters to participate.…
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