approveQualificationRequests

Description

The approveQualificationRequests command approves a list of Qualification requests. You can obtain the list from a call to getQualificationRequests.

For information about Qualifications and Qualification requests, see the Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Guide.

Arguments

The following table describes the arguments for the approveQualificationRequests command.

Name	Description	Required
-approvefile [filename]	Specifies a tab delimited text file that contains the list of Qualification requests to approve. For information about this file, see The Qualification approve file in Files Used by the Command Line Tools. Condition: Required if the qualRequest argument is not specified. Example: -approvefile qualification_requests_toapprove.txt	Conditional
-force	Specifies not to prompt for manual confirmation before approving the requests. Only advanced developers should use this argument. Example: -force	No
-help or -h	Displays the help for this operation. Example: -help	No
-qualRequest [Qualification request ID]	The Qualification request IDs to approve. Multiple Qualification request IDs are comma separated. Condition: Required if the approvefile argument is not specified. Example: -qualRequest TA3ZJBYP2Y7ZJSX2BBN0TZ8ZTM4F6H4ZVQ4DE8FZ	Conditional
-sandbox	Runs this command in the Amazon Mechanical Turk sandbox for testing. This argument takes precedence even if you specify the production web site in your mturk.properties file. Example:-sandbox	No
-score [value]	The default score to assign for each approved Qualification request. Any scores defined in the approvefile override this default. Example: -score 100	No

Example

The following examples for Unix and Windows show how to use the approveQualificationRequests command. The examples use a file named qualifications.txt that contains 10 requests. Each request in the file gets a score of 100.

Unix

The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Unix.

./approveQualificationRequests.sh -approvefile qualifications.txt -score 100
		

Windows

The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Microsoft Windows.

approveQualificationRequests -approvefile qualifications.txt -score 100
		

Output

These examples produce output similar to the following, but all 10 requests are listed.

You are about to grant 10 qual request(s).
To confirm this operation, please press ENTER (or press Ctrl+C to abort):
	  
[TA3ZJBYP2Y7ZJSX2BBN0TZ8ZTM4F6H4ZVQ4DE8FZ] QualRequest successfully approved with value (100)
	

Related Commands

• rejectQualificationRequests

• revokeQualification