Group HITs into batches in amazon mechanical turk with boto?

Question

I followed this tutorial to create HITs on amazon Mturk. I notice, however, that all my HITs are listed as individual tasks---I have to click on "manage HITs individually" in the upper right, here, rather than see anything under the "batches in progress" link.

I can't seem to find how to group boto-created HITs, even after checking the docs: http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/mturk.html

But found this on Amazon suggesting this is still an open problem: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=24993

Any thoughts or updates or does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

You can't create batches through the API. Lots of discussion of this on the AWS forums and there is no way to do it.