quick Mechanical Turk jobs from the command line

Here’s something for the geekier researchers in our crowd, and for those already running batches of tasks on Mechanical Turk.

Have you ever wanted to run a real quick experiment or task on Mechanical Turk — run a quick poll, or ask the same question about each of a few different pictures, for instance?  Do you enjoy using the command line to get things done efficiently?

Mechanical Turk’s own command line API wrappers can be clunky, but Voxilate is here to help!  They’ve created a python script that creates command line functionality for simply and quickly setting up common tasks on MTurk.  Nifty!  Google code is hosting a few other possibly useful Mechanical Turk coding projects as well.