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 \emph{workspace-specific}.
Once you chose the correct workspace Prolific web UI, the tokens can be managed in the Settings -> Go to API token page menu.