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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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Amazon Turk -- Trouble Getting started, AWS documentation little to no use

I have been combing through the AWS MTurk documentation for hours and it is of little to no help for getting started on MTurk. I am trying to have people upload small vid based on a set of instructions that I will provide. I am on the requester…
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save javascript variables to a database

I am attempting to save x&y coordinates from image annotation to a sql database. I'm using a tool developed for Amazon Mechanical Turk (http://people.cs.umass.edu/~smaji/projects/mturk/). I've set up a Linux EC2 server with javascript, mysql, php,…
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Set JAVA_CMD_HOME for MAC

I'm trying to set up JAVA_CMD_HOME on a Mac (iOS 10.9) for the mTurks CLI. After I set my access keys, I've run the following in the Terminal export MTURK_CMD_HOME=/users/Desktop/aws-mturk-clt-1.3.1/ export…
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How can I answer my own HIT on Mechanical Turk using boto

Are there any methods in the boto library that would allow me to answer my own HIT programmatically? This would be very useful for automated testing. From my reading of the boto docs it does not seem possible. I would like to do something like…
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Mechanical Turk: Contacting users who did not work for us yet

We are planning an academic study in which we would recruit participants from outside Mechanical Turk and then ask them to first sign up for MTurk to be able to participate in the study. This protects their anonymity (as we would only know their…
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Adaptive questionform on Mechanical Turk (boto)

I would like to create a question form where a person needs to click on a link and rate a website. However, the link might be broken. I had thought of first asking the worker whether the link is visible, and if yes, then ask about the rating. Is…
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iOS and Mechanical Turk

I want to develop an iOS app which can upload an image from the device to be processed in an HIT on Amazon Mechanical Turk and the text result can be relayed back to the iOS device. I know there is no native iOS API for Mechanical Turk, but is there…
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