HIT - Amazon Mechanical Turk
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HIT

Description

The HIT data structure represents a single HIT, including all the information necessary for a Worker to accept and complete the HIT.

The HIT data structure is used as a response element for the following operations:

  • CreateHIT

  • GetHIT

  • ListReviewableHITs

  • ListHITs

Elements

The HIT structure can contain the elements described in the following table.

Name Description Required

HITId

A unique identifier for the HIT. The CreateHIT operation gives a HIT the HIT ID and the HIT retains that ID forever.

Type: String

Default: None

No

HITTypeId

The ID of the HIT type of this HIT

Type: String

Default: None

No

HITGroupId

The ID of the HIT Group of this HIT

Type: String

Default: None

No

HITLayoutId

The ID of the HIT Layout of this HIT

Type: String

Default: None

No

CreationTime

The date and time the HIT was created

Type: a dateTime structure in the Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time) time zone, such as 2012-01-31T23:59:59Z.

Default: None

No

Title

The title of the HIT

Type: String

Default: None

No

Description

A general description of the HIT

Type: String

Default: None

No

Keywords

One or more words or phrases that describe the HIT, separated by commas. Search terms similar to the keywords of a HIT are more likely to have the HIT in the search results.

Type: String

Default: None

No

HITStatus

The status of the HIT and its assignments

Type: String

Valid Values: Assignable | Unassignable | Reviewable | Reviewing | Disposed

Default: None

No

Reward

The amount of money the Requester will pay a Worker for successfully completing the HIT.

Type: a Price data structure

Default: None

No

LifetimeInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, after which the HIT is no longer available for users to accept. The HIT becomes unavailable even if the requested number of assignments, specified by MaxAssignments, has not been completed.

Type: positive integer

Default: None

No

AssignmentDurationInSeconds

The length of time, in seconds, that a Worker has to complete the HIT after accepting it.

Type: positive integer

Default: None

No

MaxAssignments

The number of times the HIT can be accepted and completed before the HIT becomes unavailable.

Type: positive integer

Default: 1

No

AutoApprovalDelayInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, after the Worker submits an assignment for the HIT that the results are automatically approved by Amazon Mechanical Turk. This is the amount of time the Requester has to reject an assignment submitted by a Worker before the assignment is auto-approved and the Worker is paid.

Type: positive integer

Default: None

No

Expiration

The date and time the HIT expires

Type: a dateTime structure in the Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time) time zone, such as 2012-01-31T23:59:59Z.

Default: None

No

QualificationRequirement

The QualificationRequirement data structure describes a Qualification that a Worker must have before the Worker is allowed to accept a HIT. A requirement may optionally state that a Worker must have the Qualification in order to preview the HIT, or see the HIT in search results. A HIT can have between zero and ten Qualification requirements.

Type: a QualificationRequirement data structure.

Default: None

No

Question

The data the Worker completing the HIT uses produce the results.

Type: either a QuestionForm or an ExternalQuestion data structure.

Default: None

No

RequesterAnnotation

An arbitrary data field the Requester who created the HIT can use. This field is visible only to the creator of the HIT.

Type: String

Default: None

No

HITReviewStatus

Indicates the review status of the HIT.

Type: String

Valid Values: NotReviewed | MarkedForReview | ReviewedAppropriate | ReviewedInappropriate

Default: None

No

NumberofAssignmentsPending

The number of assignments for this HIT that are being previewed or have been accepted by Workers, but have not yet been submitted, returned, or abandoned.

Type: non-negative integer

Default: None

Conditions: This element is returned only if the HITAssignmentSummary response group is specified.

Conditional

NumberofAssignmentsAvailable

The number of assignments for this HIT that are available for Workers to accept

Type: non-negative integer

Default: None

Conditions: This element is returned only if the HITAssignmentSummary response group is specified.

Conditional

NumberofAssignmentsCompleted

The number of assignments for this HIT that have been approved or rejected.

Type: non-negative integer

Default: None

Conditions: This element is returned only if the HITAssignmentSummary response group is specified.

Conditional

Example

The following example shows a HIT data structure returned by the CreateHIT operation. The CreateHIT operation returns an element named HIT that represents the HIT that was created by the call. 


HIT:{
	HITId:"123RVWYBAZW00EXAMPLE",
	HITTypeId:"T100CN9P324W00EXAMPLE",
	HITTypeId:"2005-06-30T23:59:59",
	HITStatus:"Assignable",
	MaxAssignments:"5",
	AutoApprovalDelayInSeconds:"86400",
	LifetimeInSeconds:"86400",
	AssignmentDurationInSeconds:"300",
	Reward:{
		Amount:"25"
		CurrencyCode:"USD"
		FormattedPrice:"$0.25"
	},
	Title:"Location and Photograph Identification",
	Description:"Select the image that best represents...",
	Keywords:"location, photograph, image, identification, opinion",
	Question:{
		QuestionForm:[XML-encoded Question data]
	},
	QualificationRequirement:{
		QualificationTypeId:"789RVWYBAZW00EXAMPLE",
		Comparator:"GreaterThan",
		Value:"18"
	},
	HITReviewStatus:"NotReviewed"
}