Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools

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Steps to Getting Started

1. Sign up for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account at the AWS web site.
2. Sign up for an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester account at the Requester web site.
3. Download and install the latest version of the Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools from the AWS Resource Center
4. Open GetStarted.html for instructions.

Supported Environments

The Command Line Tools can be run on the following environments:

• Microsoft Windows
• Unix based system (i.e. Mac OSX, Linux, etc.)

Download Options

The Command Line Tools is available in four variations.

Windows Downloads

• Command Line Tools with Setup, includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
• Command Line Tools without Setup, includes JRE
• Command Line Tools without Setup, no JRE

Unix Downloads

• Command Line Tools (without JRE)

Features and Benefits

The Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools offers you the following features and benefits:

Feature	Benefit
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.

Comments, Questions or Feedback

If you have any comments, questions, or feedback concerning the Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools, please visit the Amazon Mechanical Turk discussion forums.