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Amazon Mechanical Turk API Reference

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Amazon Mechanical Turk API Reference - Amazon Mechanical Turk

This is the Amazon Mechanical Turk API Reference. This guide provides detailed information about Amazon Mechanical Turk operations, data structures, and parameters. The major sections of this guide are described in the following table.

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web service that provides an on-demand, scalable, human workforce to complete jobs that humans can do better than computers, for example, recognizing objects in photos. For more information about this product go to the Amazon Mechanical Turk website.

Important

If you do not add a CORS configuration to the S3 buckets that contain your image input data, HITs that you create using those input images will fail. To learn more, see CORS Configuration Requirement.

Operations

Alphabetical list of all Amazon Mechanical Turk operations.

Data Structure Schema Locations

Links to Amazon Mechanical Turk data structure schemas.

Question and Answer Data

Description of question and answer data that Amazon Mechanical Turk passes between Requesters and Workers.

Data Structures

Alphabetical list of all Amazon Mechanical Turk data structures.

Review Policies

Description of Amazon Mechanical Turk Review Policies.

Managing Notifications

Description of how Amazon Mechanical Turk sends notification messages to your application.

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