CrowdLib: A Python Toolkit for Working with Mechanical Turk

Contents

• Mechanical Turk Concepts
  • Basics
  • Restricting access to HITs
• crowdlib_settings.py
  • Minimal crowdlib_settings file
  • Sample crowdlib_settings file
• Examples
  • Minimal complete example
  • Change to production mode
  • Post a HIT using question fields
  • Post a HIT using an external site
  • Post a HIT using XML
  • Post a HIT using unrestricted HTML (hosted by AMT)
  • Watch status of ongoing work
  • Fetch all assignments for a HITType and print to console
  • Fetch all assignments for a HITType and save as an Excel-friendly report
  • Review (approve / reject) assignments
  • Use an agreement as a qualification requirement
  • Send a worker a bonus
  • Send a worker an email
  • Reject all work from a particular worker
  • Cancel all HITs
  • Cancel a single HIT
• API Reference
  • Crowdlib Module
    • Creating HITs
    • Input Fields
    • Getters
    • Receiving results
    • Housekeeping
    • Qualification requirements
  • Settings
  • Types Returned
    • HITType
    • HIT
    • Assignment
    • Worker
    • Answer
    • QualificationType
    • QualificationRequirement
    • NotificationEvent
    • RequesterStatistics
  • Exceptions
  • Referring to time
    • datetime expression
    • date expression
    • duration expression
• Limitations
  • Concurrency