A new, hopefully better, Qual Sorter with amazing new features, such as: It handles timeouts. It will catch a timeout error and increment its delay higher up to 5 times. If it continues to fail after that it will stop and print a message to inform you about what happened. The table renders much faster. User-friendliness-ish, sort of. There's a progress indicator, a cancel button and error messages. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/458477-mturk-qualification-database-and-scraper (It's also up on Github if anyone wants to contribute to it, or fix it, or laugh at it) https://github.com/Elias0419/qualScraper.user.js
Hello everyone. I came across this post [1] and I thought I ought to drop in and say something about it. First of all, my script does not do anything shady or malicious. Anybody who can read JavaScript can look it over and tell you that it does exactly what it says on the tin. I wrote this script to assuage an issue with Eisen-Uchiha's Worker-MTurk Qual Sorter [2] script - namely, that it would time out silently. A common fix floating around reddit and forums was to edit the script to increase the timeout. That was my original purpose and then it blossomed into a whole script. The core functionality of my script and that script are exactly the same - you press a button and it makes a series of requests to [3] the qualifications page to retrieve all of your qualifications. Now, I don't know for sure that it isn't the cause of someone getting an account suspended, of course. Who knows what goes on behind the scenes of mturk? But I strongly believe that it was not. I and quite a few other people are regular users and have not had the same issue. I made this as a hobby project and I released it to the community in the hopes that it would be useful. If anyone wants to ask any questions, feel free to DM me or leave a comment on this thread. I'm also AOT in the Turkenation slack and you can contact me on my Github[4] or Greasyfork[5] pages as well. [1]https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/2140368/ [2]https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/38977-worker-mturk-qual-sorter [3]https://worker.mturk.com/qualifications/assigned.json [4]https://github.com/Elias0419 [5]https://greasyfork.org/en/users/1004048-elias041
Hi, I was the one that was suspended. I did not say this script was the definite cause of my suspension, or that your script was purposely malicious, just that this was the only thing I had done differently. I installed and ran it Tuesday night and was suspended Wednesday morning. I will not know the cause unless I actually get a response from the appeals department. I have been turking for nearly a decade so perhaps the amount of pages it had to scrape triggered a few too many errors, or made me look like a bot, or it could be some completely different thing that made the mturk gods angry. If I ever find out I will certainly let everyone know.
Wow, I'm so sorry that your account was suspended. Have you asked Turk Opticon for help? They sometimes are able to help. Sent from my SM-A136U using Tapatalk
From your explanation, it seems like you created this script to address a specific issue with another script and to make the qualification retrieval process more reliable. It's also clear that you didn't have any malicious intent and that you intended to contribute something useful to the community, possibly even involving B2B contact enrichment. While you may not know for certain whether your script has caused any issues for users, it's essential to highlight that modifying or using scripts on platforms like Mechanical Turk (mturk) can have consequences, as the platform's policies can be strict to prevent abuse or automated behavior. As you mentioned, it's difficult to know exactly what happens behind the scenes, but it's good to hear that you and others have not experienced any issues.
