unblockWorker - Amazon Mechanical Turk
DescriptionArgumentsExampleOutput

This software is not currently supported by Amazon Mechanical Turk

The Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools (CLT) are not currently maintained by Amazon Mechanical Turk. If you would still like to use Amazon Mechanical Turk from the command line, use the mturk command in the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). For more information, see the mturk section of the AWS CLI Command Reference .

 

unblockWorker

Description

The unblockWorker command unblocks a Worker who has been blocked from working on your HITs.

Arguments

The following table describes the arguments for the unblockWorker command.

Name Description Required

-help or -h

Displays the help for this operation.

Example: -help

No

-reason

The reason why you are unblocking the Worker. This reason is logged in our system for auditing purposes. Enclose this string in quotation marks.

Example: -reason "Made a mistake. Blocked the wrong Worker ID"

Yes

-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

-workerid [worker ID]

The ID of the Worker to unblock.

Example: -workerid A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ

Yes

Example

The following examples for Unix and Windows show how to use the unblockWorker command. These examples unblock a specified Worker.

Unix

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


./unblockWorker.sh -workerid A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ -reason "Made a mistake. Blocked the wrong Worker ID."

Windows

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


unblockWorker -workerid A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ -reason "Made a mistake. Blocked the wrong Worker ID."

Output

These examples produce the following output.


Unblocked A3C4G8DMXFG5PQ with reason:  Made a mistake. Blocked the wrong Worker ID.