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grantBonus
Description
The grantBonus command issues a payment from your account to a Worker. This
payment happens separately from the reward you pay to the Worker when you approve the Worker's assignment.
You must have enough funds in your account to pay for the bonus.
Arguments
The following table describes the arguments for the grantBonus command.
| Name | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
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The amount of bonus to give the Worker. Example: |
Yes |
|
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The ID of the assignment associated with this bonus.
Example: |
Yes |
|
|
Displays the help for this operation. Example: |
No |
|
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The reason for the bonus. You must enclose the string in quotation marks. Example: |
Yes |
|
|
Runs this command in the Amazon Mechanical Turk sandbox. This argument takes precedence
even if you specify the production web site in your
Example: |
No |
|
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The ID of the Worker who gets the bonus. Example: |
Yes |
Example
The following examples for Unix and Windows show how to use the grantBonus
command.
Unix
The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Unix.
./grantBonus.sh -workerid A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ -assignment 0YFZ2TYJF3HZPGZV4Z40EZD4YZZFDSTZ0YG78W2Z -reason "Your answers are very accurate." -amount 5.00
Windows
The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Microsoft Windows.
grantBonus -workerid A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ -assignment 0YFZ2TYJF3HZPGZV4Z40EZD4YZZFDSTZ0YG78W2Z-reason "Your answers are very accurate." -amount 5.00
Output
These examples produce output similar to the following.
Granted bonus to A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ
