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This is an R-Package for creating and managing empirical crowd-sourcing studies via API access to the Prolific platform.
It implements a number of user-friendly functionalities for creating and managing potentially large numbers of studies on the Prolific crowd-sourcing platform via its API.
prolific.api provides three
ReferenceClasses to access the Prolific API,
namely api_access, prolific_study and
prolific_prescreener. An overview is provided below.
provide functionalities for accessing the API, which requires to specify a valid API token.
represent studies to be created or managed on Prolific. Users can create new studies, or retrieve existing studies from Prolific and apply updates to them.
characterize the participants to be selected for a certain
prolific_study, i.e. the requirements that a person needs
to meet to be recruited for the prolific_study.
A researcher account on Prolific is required to
use the functionalities of this package. To use this account, a valid Prolific
API token must be specified for authentication. These tokens are .
Once you chose the correct workspace Prolific web UI, the
tokens can be managed in the
Settings -> Go to API token page menu.
These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.