The Developer Forum Search on this topic (and any others) was useful First response, Second Emailing workers using Python, where the MturkIDs can just be pasted in in a list
#4 How to perform multi-stage and complex experimentsMTurk is not optimized for following up with a subject after a few months. It does allow you to assign predicates with each user who performs a task, and later offer HITs only to users who have (or who don't have) predicates of your choice. That's a bit complicated, though, and leads to much lower opt-in rates than directly contacting the desired subjects. Here's what you can do: For constructing and deploying more complicated surveys, MTurk offers a programmable tool. But it isn't easy to do, and doesn't offer an easy visualization of results. Instead, I set up a survey on SurveyMonkey and link to that in my recruiting message. It's also possible to ask your subjects to visit a URL of your suggestion, perform a task there, and report back an observation to another site including MTurk. Or, you can ask subjects to input their observations on the visited site. For example: you can ask subjects to visit 3 websites and rank them. One of them is yours or your client's, the others belongs to competitors — which one is nicest, and why? Similarly, you may have constructed a site that dispenses user advice – such as the SecurityCartoon one I run – and want to know whether typical Internet users understand a particular piece of advice. You can ask them to read the advice (include a URL for them to visit); then ask them to tell you, in their words, what it means. Or ask them to judge five fictional situations and tell you which ones are safe. If they understood the advice, that should impact their selection. Or ask them simply whether they learnt anything new, and whether they would suggest to friends of theirs concerned with the associated issue to read the advice. Notifying workers using boto
1) If you don't have python, download version 2.7 of python (should be already installed on macs).
2) Then go to boto's github repository and download the latest version (if you feel comfortable with tarballs, feel free to use those; otherwise download as zip). Unzip the file anywhere (though somewhere easy to find with command line is best).
3) open a terminal window (windows: Command prompt), and navigate to the directory where boto is unzipped.
4) Type "python setup.py install" (without quotes).
5) Start python (mac: type “python” (without quotes) into a terminal window. Windows: recommend using IDLE (the python gui which should have come with your download). You can use the command prompt, but kind of a pain.)
Then, just follow the instructions in this pdf doc. You do not need step 2.10, just use the workerids variable (or just paste the string directly) when making the call – the command accepts arrays |