Open up Mechanical Turk, sign in if you haven't already, and copy and paste the following in your address bar (replacing www.mturk.com/mturk/dashboard) and press Enter:
Wish I had knew that way back when I wanted to know it. haha. Now i've gotten it via replys from requestors. I had tried the one qualification thing for techlist, but its still in my pending months later...they never replied. hehe.
Along the same lines, I'm thinking of writing a little Greasemonkey script to automatically hide HITs that say they're for some worker ID other than one's own. Some days there will be a whole crop of them and I'd rather just not see them.
You know what would be cool? If I had a way to hide those requestors that I wouldn't work for if I was starving to death. I hate sifting through pages of low paying/no paying gigs to find the requestors I adore.
Yeah, I agree with that and will urge ergo to do something on that line instead. I'm also often offended on seeing loads of HITs of Questions some Swami may be bothered about and different forms of query which is mostly organic. I'll be very grateful if you find me some way of getting rid of them.
I get so aggravated with those two! The questions are often so blatantly moronic that it's an insult to even be asked. Second graders in the "special class" know the answer to these questions. Worse still, they expect us to qualify the answer with a URL where we found it. As if we actually had to search, because we're THAT stupid. Why don't they just have one request with dozens of hits that ask different questions, instead of each question being a request? I want to go on a five state killing spree every time I have to go through 5-10 pages before I find a valuable request. Especially when I notice how absurd their requests are.
Along the same lines, is there an easy way to extract the requestor id and the auto pay values out of the HIT source page? I tried playing around with the worker ID script to get the values of "hitAutoApply" and "requestorId" to show up in an alert box but I didn't have any luck. For example, here is an Askville 3 cent HIT with an autopay set for 11 days: <input type="hidden" name="hitAutoAppDelayInSeconds" value="950400"> (950,400 seconds divided by 86,400 seconds in a day equals 11 days.) Requester ID: <input type="hidden" name="requesterId" value="A27TJJ2TRM2Q9I">
Well, the easiest way is just to look at requesterId= in the URL. But by script, you can do: Code: javascript:alert("Requester ID is " + document.getElementsByName('requesterId')[0].value); Make it into a bookmark on your address bar and it will come in handy.
Darnit! No wonder I couldn't get it working, I left the [0].value part off. Read the manual, huh? So now all I have to do is figure out how to do take the value from hitAutoAppDelayInSeconds and divide it by 86,400. I'm just trying to get a very basic grasp of JavaScript because none of this stuff comes naturally to me. I eventually want to write a simple grease monkey script that will make these values and others easily available. Thank you for showing me how to do this. Ok, got it. Except it looks a little awkward when you have a requester like Mobiscious that auto pays in one hour. Code: javascript:alert("Auto Pay is set for "+ document.getElementsByName('hitAutoAppDelayInSeconds')[0].value/86400 + " days"); I like to know in advance how long I might have to wait to get paid, especially from a new requester.
I know what you mean. I've been writing a "simple" Greasemonkey script for a couple of weeks now, gradually getting a handle on Javascript as I go along. A single issue has taken up more than half that time. But at least by the time I'm done, I'll have learned a lot in the process. No problem. I ran into the same thing the first time I tried to use GetElementsByName, forgetting I was dealing with an array. I've been so preoccupied with other things, I never even noticed they included that in there! Why the heck do they send all this stuff to the browser and then don't let us see it? I suppose it may give us a view into what they intended to offer in the mTurk interface but never got around to doing anything with.
MOVED to its own post: Techlist's link to an awesome page they put together listing all the active requesters with links to their HITs. Here is the new location: http://www.mturkforum.com/showthread.php?t=1100
This worker id script is not working for me. It used to work previously. Is our customer ID = Worker ID? When we send email to customer support we get an acknowledgment email mentioning our customer ID. Wanted to know if that's same as worker ID.
Is cutomer ID same as Mturk worker ID? I have sent Mturk once an email asking something, I have seen below of the automatic generated reply email mentioning Customer ID. Just need some clarification. Tnx.
click the your account tab and it shows your id right above the total earnings Dashboard - ##### (If you're not #####, click here.) Your Worker ID: ########### sorry if perhaps i misunderstood. easier then jscript alerts in the browser
hi to all m turk is very good to make money online most of the my hit not takin in hit submiting pls help me on that when i submit the hit is will show fresh hit again why pls tell
if your account got suspended, write to the US authorities to suspend mturk website, rates of mturk jobs are less than that offered to beggars.