mturk Command Line Toolkit

An mturk Command Line Toolkit is a command-line toolkit for mturk.

• See: mturk API, mturk UI.

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References

• http://mturk.s3.amazonaws.com/CLT_Tutorial/UserGuide.html#features
  • The Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools offers you the following features and benefits:
    • Bulk load HITs via a Question Template File, an Input File, and a HIT Properties File. | No coding necessary. Only simple text file manipulation, using Microsoft Excel to manage your input and simple XML editing.
    • Retrieve submitted results as a file. | Results can be easily viewed in a text editor or Excel and can be easily parsed for integration to your backend system or into another HIT workflow.
    • Bulk approve/reject assignments | Results can be easily approved/rejected using files.
    • Change properties for HITs that are live | Change properties (i.e. reward) for HITs that are already in production.
    • Preview your HIT as an HTML file. | Designing your HITs takes less time since you can preview the look and feel without loading into Amazon Mechanical Turk.
    • Manage your Workers | Create and maintain your qualifications to manage your Workers. Prevent undesirable Workers from completing your HITs by using the Block Worker command.

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./$ export MTURK_CMD_HOME=/tmp/aws-mturk-clt-1.3.1/
./$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/
./$ export MTURK_JVM_ARGS="-Djdk.tls.trustNameService=true"
./$ cd samples/helloworld/
./samples/helloworld$ ./run.sh

--[Initializing]----------
 Input: ../samples/helloworld/helloworld.input
 Properties: ../samples/helloworld/helloworld.properties
 Question File: ../samples/helloworld/helloworld.question
 Preview mode disabled
--[Loading HITs]----------
  Start time: Sun Sep 20 19:00:38 PDT 2015
Created HIT 1: HITId=34ZTTGSNJWNA01BUAZYBXYGVTEGQHS
Created HIT 2: HITId=388CL5C1RIMZ94VHIUQFGCH1J8TLHY
Created HIT 3: HITId=3QTFNPMJC5HBOPYW0TC1TBPVKTANZS
Created HIT 4: HITId=3C8QQOM6JO0Z5Z61OC80GOIGJL8LIR
Created HIT 5: HITId=3OKP4QVBP1W4DP921XJ7MYPPAWHGAC

You may see your HIT(s) with HITTypeId '2GCMJUNU8LZ6R7QI4G08G8J3V2JI23' here:

  https://workersandbox.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2GCMJUNU8LZ6R7QI4G08G8J3V2JI23

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