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Randomize order of questions
I am creating a voice naturalness test in MTurk, using the template provided. It populates ${audio_url} from a provided csv. However, it will always present the questions in the same order as the rows ...
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Retrieving results from Sandbox HIT returns empty xml dictionary
I am trying to create an experiment on Amazon Mechanical Turk. I have borrowed the code from this SO question. It runs without an error, but returns an empty array. The code is:
import boto3
import ...
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Get Mechanical Turk task input data (e.g. example image url) from Boto API
When retreiving results from a Mechanical Turk assignment via the boto API, how can I see the input data from the CSV that is provided before creating a new batch?
The only way I've been able to find ...
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How to set multiple Qualification criteria for a batch in mechanical turk using python API
I want to implement the same functionality from Requester end using APIs in python as shown in the image below:
I want to test if Hit approval rate is > 95% for a worker and I also want the worker to ...
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When creating an MTurk HIT with AssignmentReviewPolicy, HITs are rejected incorrectly
TL;DR: My AssignmentReviewPolicy is leading to all HITs being rejected. How do I change my policy to accept when "defendant" radio button is selected?
Details:
I include a golden question in my HITs ...
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Can't create more than 10 assignments per HIT
I'm using the code below to create a HIT on Mechanical Turk using Boto 3:
new_hit = mturk.create_hit(
Title='my title',
Description='my description',
Keywords='my, keywords',
Reward='...
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New HIT is not shown on the dashboard with HITs
When I' creating new HIT programmatically with this python script (got it from this tutorial):
import boto3
import os
MTURK_SANDBOX = 'https://mturk-requester-sandbox.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
mturk ...
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How is Mechanical Turk Bounding Box Data Formatted in Bulk?
I am attempting to use YOLOv3 to train a classifier with data that I get from MTurk. I have used a Sandbox to see how the data from 1 individual HIT is formatted. I have no problem writing code to ...
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How to delete still available HITs using boto3 client
I have some published HITs available to workers. Now I want to delete them although they haven't been finished by the workers. According to this documentation, it is not possible: https://boto3....
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Programmatically create Amazon MTurk HITLayout and get HITLayoutId?
I'm wondering if there is an alternative to creating the HITLayout from the website and doing it programmatically if I have the html file ready for it.
I know that I can create a project on the ...
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MTurk API: Unable to see my created HIT on dashboard
I am using the tutorial given here. It says HIT is created but when I go here https://requestersandbox.mturk.com/ I don't find the project I created. Though individual worker URL does return HIT web ...
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RequestError when calling the CreateHIT operation
I'm new to MTurk, and Im trying to create a HIT using python.
I successfully connected to sandbox (by printing successfully my account balance).
I'm now trying to create a HIT and get a request error. ...
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boto3 unknownservice "mturk"
I am trying to use boto3 for Amazon Mechanical Turk. I was trying to get the client using the following code:
import boto3
endpoint_url = 'https://mturk-requester.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
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How to get results from a HIT on sandbox via Mturk API
I have created an XML file to publish a question to MTurk and the HIT is visible in the worker sandbox. A couple of my friends even submitted responses to the HIT, but I'm unable to view the results ...
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boto3 mturk send_bonus error
When I try to send bonus via Boto3 regularly (but not always) the RequestError appears:
Exception Type: RequestError
Exception Value:
An error occurred (RequestError) when calling the SendBonus ...
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HITs created using externalQuestion of MTurk were not working in the sandbox
I am new to MTurk and have been trying to implement my web app for point picking on this platform. I have successfully created a HIT using ExternalQuestion based on the tutorial from kaflurbaleen....
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How can iterate through results in boto3 with mturk
I am a newbie at boto and I try to iterate through the results of the I can get.
In particular, I want to count all workers with a given qualification. However, the limit is 100 and I do not ...
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Error message when submitting HIT to Amazon Mechanical Turk
I have a problem submitting a HIT to Amazon Mechanical Turk sandbox.
I'm using the following code to submit a HIT:
external_content = """"
<ExternalQuestion xmlns="http://mechanicalturk....
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MTurk: Best 2 out of 3 HIT creation/retrieval
Desired Result
I can retrieve the agreed upon answer value for a given HIT
The Problem
When I call
CLIENT.list_review_policy_results_for_hit(HITId=hit['HITId'])
to retrieve the results for a specific ...
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Trying to Get Balance in MTurk using Boto but get "The identity contained in the request is not authorized to use this AWSAccessKeyId"
I am trying to GetAccountBalance on my Mechanical Turk account using Boto referencing to my shared credentials file. I have been successful in doing so by typing my credentials directly but have ...
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Set qualification requirements for MTURK external HIT using Boto [duplicate]
I have these lines in my python code. I am using the boto library to connect to amazon Mturk
import boto
userqualification = boto.mturk.qualification.NumberHitsApprovedRequirement(comparator='...
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boto get_assignments AWS.MechanicalTurk.HITDoesNotExist error
I want to retrieve assignments from an old HIT on mturk using boto. This is what I did.
from boto.mturk.connection import MTurkConnection
import csv
mtc = MTurkConnection(aws_access_key_id=ACCESS_ID,
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Give basic boto create_qualification_type example
Can anyone give a basic example on how to use boto's mturk create_qualification_type? Please include an example of a valid answer_key_xml.
Or please point to some documentation with examples. The ...
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Testing Equality of boto Price object
I am using the python package boto to connect python to MTurk. I am needing to award bonus payments, which are of the Price type. I want to test if one Price object equals a certain value. ...
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How to get “qualification_type_id” when using Boto API for Mturk
It seems that the following code should return a qual which contain a qualification_type_id attribute. Since lots of functions in Boto require qualification_type_id as a parameter. It shows that the ...
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What options are there for verifying that mturk is requesting my ExternalQuestion and not a 3rd party?
I have a django application that I want to host a form on to use as the template for an ExternalHit on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. I've been trying to figure out ways that I can make it so only mturk is ...
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How to get "qualification_type_id" when using Boto API
It seems that the following code should return a qual which contain a qualification_type_id attribute. But it does not when I use dir(qual) to check. Since lots of functions in Boto require ...
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Not able to identify AWSAccessKey while creating HIT
I am trying to create Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT using python script and I get the following issue. I verified my registeration in AMT Requester account and it seems fine. Could anyone let me know how ...
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Having difficulty pointing Selenium towards the right iFrame [python]
I'm trying to get my selenium script to download an image from an MTurk HIT. My script is able to log into MTurk, go to the "accept a new HIT" page for the HIT I want to grab the image from, but then ...
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Using Boto to send SQS notifications for an MTurk hit
I'm trying to set up SQS notifications for an MTurk HIT created using Boto. I'm able to create the HIT type, create a HIT with that type, create an SQS queue, and write to and read from the queue. I'...
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Creating mTurk HIT from Layout with parameters using boto and python
I am attempting to utilize boto to generate a HIT in mechanical turk. The goal is to use a common layout that is already generated on my mTurk account, and pass it urls of images to iteratively create ...
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OR-ing qualifications with MTurk
Is it possible to have a user have one of multiple Qualifications in order to work on a HIT. For example:
qualifications = Qualifications()
qualifications.add(
Requirement(comparator='EqualTo', ...
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Mechanical Turk 'rollback' on HIT Creation
Here is the code I currently have:
with transaction.commit_manually():
try:
m.update_accepted_url(episode_id)
m.create_hit()
m.do_insert()
transaction.commit()
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GetRequester statistic only returning one data point
I am doing the following request with the boto library:
params = {
'Operation': 'GetRequesterStatistic',
'Statistic': 'TotalRewardAndFeePayout',
'TimePeriod': 'OneDay',
'Count': 5
}
response =...
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MTurk Answer with formatted text
I have the following current code to create an answer selection:
q1_answer_options=[('No URL exists', 0), ('http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2271332/', 1), ('http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460987/', 2), ('...
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Boto + Mechanical Turk: how do you get all fields?
For the time being, I want to create HITs manually, and retrieve them using mturk's API.
I'm using Boto to retrieve the assignments, but the problem is I can only see information filled in by the ...
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How to add a user to a Qualification
I added up a Qualification in the UI of mechanical turk. How would i then add a worker to that. Here is what I'm trying:
qualification_id = '3RVX62BZKNDM4K4RT7JU0YN4QTRLP2' # this has been added
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Increasing HIT MaxAssignments
I would like to programmatically increase or decrease the number of opportunities based upon getting a consensus answer. For example:
Start with 3 opportunities
If the first two are correct, remove ...
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Review Policy in MechanicalTurk
Is there a way to set an AssignmentReview or HITReview Policy in Boto? In looking it up, I came across this post, but this is from two years ago: https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/1452.
Is there ...
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Only allow specific workers to work on my HIT
Is there a way that I can do the following in Mechanical Turk to only allow certain users to work on my project? Something like:
from boto.mturk.qualification Qualifications
quals=Qualifications()
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How can I create a batch in Mechanical Turk?
I am asking an ExternalQuestion on Amazon Mechanical Turk as follows:
for apple_id in apple_ids:
question_url = BASE_EXTERNAL_URL + '?' + apple_id
QUESTION = ExternalQuestion(external_url=...
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How to view HIT annotation in Mechanical Turk
I am trying to annotate something to my HIT, namely, an AppleID:
>>> hit = conn.create_hit(
question=q,
reward = 0.05,
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How to POST data to webserver before Mechanical Turk
I am currently doing the following in Mechanical Turk for an external question:
<form name="mturk" method="post" action="https://workersandbox.mturk.com/mturk/externalSubmit">
Name: <...
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404 from Mechanical Turk when POSTing data
I have an ExternalQuestion and I am trying to POST my data back to Mechanical Turk, which is done when the answer has been successfully completed. Here is what I'm doing:
r = requests.post('https://...
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ExternalQuestion worker limitation
I have two different use cases on Mechanical Turk. The first one is where there is one 'task' and I need ten unique workers to complete it. So, 10 HITs and only one worker can do one HIT. An example ...
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How to know when someone returns HIT?
For an ExternalQuestion, when a worker views an HIT in preview mode, the url that is sent is something like:
/mturk?assignmentId=ASSIGNMENT_ID_NOT_AVAILABLE&hitId=3FSEU3P2NR0J4ISYGCVR597YQFLRRR
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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 ...
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LXML: How to ignore unknown namespace prefixes?
For Crowdflower I need to define a CML and as it is very similar to XML I want to use
LXML for this task. Crowdflower defines for it's CML tags like:
<cml:textarea label="Sample text area:" /> ...
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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, ...
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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
<?xml ...
