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MTurk

Set up MTurk​

If you want to launch your tasks on MTurk, you'll want to create a requester. Doing this requires an IAM role on AWS with the MechanicalTurkFullAccess permission, on an AWS account that is linked to the requester you want to use. Once you obtain the API credentials for that role, register these with Mephisto, by creating a new requester (make sure to replace $ACCESS_KEY and $SECRET_KEY below):

$ mephisto register mturk \
        name=my_mturk_user \
        access_key_id=$ACCESS_KEY\
        secret_access_key=$SECRET_KEY
AWS credentials successfully saved in ~/.aws/credentials file.

Registered successfully.

where my_mturk_user can be any name of your choice referring to this particular requester.

MTurk Sandbox​

For an mturk_sandbox requester, you should suffix the requester name with "_sandbox" (e.g. my_mturk_user_sandbox).

Here's how to register an "mturk_sandbox" requester:

$ mephisto register mturk_sandbox \
        name=my_mturk_user_sandbox \
        access_key_id=$ACCESS_KEY\
        secret_access_key=$SECRET_KEY

Registered successfully.