Emailing Workers Using Python

Mueller, Pam; Chandler, Jesse

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2100601

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Emailing Workers Using Python

3 Pages Posted: 5 Jul 2012 Last revised: 15 Jul 2012

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Pam Mueller

Princeton University - Department of Psychology

Jesse Chandler

Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Date Written: March 3, 2012

Abstract

While the Mechanical Turk web interface allows researchers to contact research participants individually, it is frequently necessary to email participants en masse. In this working paper we describe how to email up to 100 workers at a time using boto.

Keywords: Mechanical Turk, MTurk, Research Methods, boto

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Mueller, Pam and Chandler, Jesse, Emailing Workers Using Python (March 3, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2100601 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2100601