Amazon Mechanical Turk

This book is a guide for workers on how to make money online through the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The book begins by taking you through a short section to help you learn what Amazon Mechanical Turk is. Of course, it is good for you to learn what it is so as to begin earning from it. The next step is a guide for you on how to get started by setting up your Mechanical Turk account. You will be briefly introduced to how to use the Mechanical Turk in this chapter. Next, the book guides you on how to use scripts, and you will learn their importance in Mechanical Turk. The most common scripts for MTurk are discussed. You are guided on how to install them and how to use them. The HIT Scrapper is a good tool and makes it easy and faster for you find HITs (Human Intelligent Tasks) on the Mechanical Turk. This book guides you on how to use this tool so as to make your work easier. It guides you on how to install the tool and use it to find the HITs. The mturk PandA is also a good tool for MTurk workers. It helps them grab HITs more easily, meaning that they will have more work to do and hence more earnings. The book guides you on how to use this tool. In MTurk, repetitive tasks forms majority of the HITs. It calls for you to come up with a way which will help you automate the repetitive tasks. This book guides you on how to do this by use of the AutoHotKey. The following topics are discussed in this book: - What is Mechanical Turk? - Account Setup - The Scripts - The HIT Scrapper - MTurk PandA - AutoHotKey for Turking - Turkmaster - The SearchHITs Operation