Even though it isn’t even close to being finished (more like just started) I went ahead and posted my Amazon Mechanical Turk library to GitHub released under GPLv3. You can download it from the GitHub repo

If you aren’t familiar with the Mechanical Turk, it’s part of the Amazon Web Services, and it allows anyone to source simple activities to a number of people that would otherwise be too expensive or logistically complex to accomplish. You can learn more at the Amazon Mechanical Turk site.

Why did I do it? I recently had to work on  a project building a game interface that finds players and gives them access to a simple game using the Mechanical Turk. I decided to use PHP with the REST API and found it very cumbersome. Hence, I decided to use my code as a wrapper for the REST API so other developers could perform the same actions using simple functions instead of gargantuan URLs.

Little by little I will incorporate more and more functions to match those provided by the API, and hopefully some of you will add some functions as well.

Tags: aws, github, mechanical_turk, open_source, php

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