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The Amazon Mechanical Turk Service accepts a set of parameters in the request common to every operation. Each required parameter must be included in a request for the request to be successful.
Parameters common to all operations are explained here. For more information about the parameters for a specific operation, see the description of the operation in the Operations section of this reference.
Requests to the Amazon Mechanical Turk service can include the parameters described in the following table. Required parameters must be included with each request for the request to succeed.
| Name | Description | Required |
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The Requester's Access Key ID, a unique identifier that corresponds to a Secret Access Key and an Amazon.com account. Type: String Default: None |
Yes |
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The name of the Amazon Web Services service. Type: String Valid Values: AWSMechanicalTurkRequester Default: None Constraints: For REST requests only. For SOAP requests the name of the service is part of the SOAP entry point, and does not need to bespecified in the request. |
Yes |
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The name of the operation Type: String Default: None Contraints: For REST requests only For SOAP requests, the operation name is part of the SOAP message structure provided by your SOAP toolkit, and is not part of the request. |
Yes |
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The signature for this request, an encrypted string calculated from
elements of the request and the AWS access key that corresponds to your AWS
Access Key ID. For information about how to calculate a
Type: String Default: None |
Yes |
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The current time on your system. This value is included to validate
against the Type: a dateTime in the Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time) time
zone, such as Default: None |
Yes |
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A list of response groups Type: String Default: None |
Yes |
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Specifies what version of the API to use. Type: String Default: None. If not specified, the latest version of the API is used. Constraints: Used only for REST requests |
No |
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If specified, instructs the service to not perform the operation, and only return information about whether or not the request is valid. Type: String Default: None. If not specified, the service executes the requested operation. |
No |
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This parameter is reserved for future use. Type: None Default: None |
Not used |
