I'd like to use mturk to have 10 workers visit my website, log in with a test account, and enter some information on their profile. I don't want them to see each other's entries, so each worker should get login information for a different test account when they view the HIT.
This almost looks like what mturk's template feature is for -- I could upload a CSV with the information for each test account. But if I understand correctly, that will make 10 separate HITs, and allow one worker to do all 10 of them. Is there any way to have mturk put information that varies between workers into a single HIT?
Here are the solutions I'm currently aware of:
Use the CLI to automate creation of a bunch of different HITs. This would be a lot of work, and also make approving and retrieving the results cumbersome.
Direct workers to a survey website that's capable of doing what I want, and have them get the login information there.
Dynamically fill in part of the HIT using an AJAX request to an external website and database. That seems like crazy overkill for something so simple.
Are there other options?
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Is it possible to create a Kapow Robot that can search Google for the Operating hours of the Businesses from our list/database and update the timings if changes are made?
Please share if there are any other more efficient ways than the KAPOW robot that can be implemented with minimal effort and cost-effectiveness.
That's what the Google Places API is there for. While you could in theory just open Google Maps in a Load Page action, enter the query string and then parse the results, I would advise against it. Here's why:
The API will be faster, returning results in a structured manner (JSON)
Kapow has actions for calling RESTful services and parsing/modifying JSON
Google does not like robots parsing their pages, and most likely will lock you out (i.e. present you with Captchas sooner or later)
If you decide to go for the API, here's what you should do:
Get your API key first, see this page for details: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/get-api-key. Note that the free plan allows for 1,000 requests within a 24-hours limit (https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/usage)
Maintain the place ids for all the businesses you'd like to query regularly, and update your list.
For each place, retrieve the details as described in the API documentation. The opening hours will be within the JSON response: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details
Update your list. I'd recommend using a definite type in Kapow for that, and using the actions Store in Database and Query Database. In case you need the data elsewhere, you may create additional robots (e.g. for Excel files, sending data per email, et cetera).
I have a project that involves having public data downloaded from Google plus, can you give me a reference on how I can download like 1 GB of any type of public data from Google plus?
The data can be posts or circles information. I've tried to work with developer tools but the far I got is downloading my own profile information but what I need is public data.
Thanks !
There is no truly "public" data on Google+.
Every stream is unique to a user.
Try viewing the site without logging in, and you'll see what I mean.
Since users have the ability to block other users from viewing even their "public" posts, before Google shows you a post they check to see if you're on the blocked list. For them to be able to do that, you have to be logged in.
Your best bet would be to create a dummy account and only look at your nearby stream or What's Hot.
Otherwise you'd need to circle users, and that would create the stream. G+ is not like twitter. There's no firehose to speak of.
To programmatically cull data, you would have to use their API, but even then their HTTP API limits you to 20 results per search and you have to provide a query.
You could get up to 100 results per user if you picked individuals and got their userids, but again there's not a programmatic way to get a bulk dump.
You could randomly select users by using an activity search for a dictionary entry, and then seed that into the activity listing api... something like (in pure pseudocode)
for Random word in dictionary
group = userids from GET https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/activities?query=[word]
for userid in group
GET https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/[userid]/activities/collection/public
Actual code would of course depend on the language.
I'm a freelance web dev and I work with a lot of clients across many different workspaces in Asana. Not being able to get a consolidated view makes this a tedious and difficult thing to manage, so I'm putting together my own little utility to help me get a 'superview' of tasks assigned to me in order of the due date. In order to make this easier for me to scan, I need to have the project name next to the task details.
The easiest way, in my mind, would be a single API call for all tasks assigned to me and request the project name, task name, task id, due date, and workspace name all at once.
The API doesn't seem to allow this consolidated type of request, however, so instead, the workflow goes something like this;
API call to get all my workspaces
Loop through the workspaces, making an API call for each to get all tasks
Use PHP to sort those tasks accordingly
Loop through those tasks making an API call for the first instance of each project in order to get the project name (I cache the data as I
go so that I'm only making a call once per project)
The issue I'm getting is a 500 error when I start making API calls to get the project details. I doubt I'm hitting the 100 call per minute limit, but I'm still getting the errors none the less. In light of this, I'm looking for a way to make a consolidated call that contains all the data I need, but I can't seem to figure it out.
Anyone have some guidance on this?
Good news! We actually do support Input/Output options that allow you to specify which fields you want, including nested fields. So, while you still need to make separate calls for each workspace, you can do something like this:
workspaces = GET /workspaces
for id in workspaces
tasks = GET /workspaces/:id/tasks?assignee=me&opt_fields=name,due_on,projects.name
(If you're only interested in incomplete tasks, you can add &completed_since=now - or if you want incomplete and recently completed tasks, &completed_since=... with the timestamp you want to exclude any tasks that were completed before)
Additionally, 500 is not the code we send for rate limiting - it's likely an issue with the request itself. How are you requesting the project details?
As a requester, after I create HITs I'd like to preview them on the website both on the Sandbox and in Production for various reasons, ranging from final verification to checking up on a particular HIT.
But I have found that I am not able to view my own HITs since the qualifications I've set are beyond what my account when logged in as a worker can view. So I'd like to ask is there a way for a requester to be able to review their HITs even if they themselves do not having matching qualifications?
Options:
If they're your own user-defined qualifications, then you can assign them to yourself in the live server and in the sandbox.
If they're statistics-type qualifications (like number of HITs completed), you have to actually manually achieve them. You could do this by creating a bunch of HITs for yourself to complete in the sandbox. Tedious, but it's the only way to actually get the qualification.
If it's something like masters, there's no way to really make them work in the sandbox unless you follow (2), above, but the definition of master is not public anywhere so it's unclear how much you'd have to do to gain the qualification.
You can, of course, remove the qualifications in the sandbox just to test the HIT itself, but that's probably not exactly what you want.
Using MTurk, during testing phase, it might be useful to execute the same HIT multiple times to collect enough data for a WebApplication. However, in the worker's sandbox, only one assignment can be submitted.
Is there a way to get multiple results for the same HIT? E.g. a way to fill in the form multiple times from the same user account, or a method to auto-generate inputs and submit crowd-sourced forms?