Quickstart

After installing, explore psiTurk with seven easy steps:

1. Sign up with Amazon here.
2. Sign up for a Mechanical Turk requester account, available here.
3. To use our demo, create a directory, open it e.g., mkdir psiTurkDemo; cd psiTurkDemo, and then issue the command psiturk-setup-example.
4. Edit the config.txt file in this directory to include you Amazon credentials and change the server option to the ip/hostname of your local computer (more info here).
5. Start psiturk to launch the interactive command shell (full list of command savailable by typing help at the interactive prompt).
6. Type start_server at the prompt to start the webserver.
7. Type debug at the prompt to launch the psiTurk demo experiment in a new browser window.