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mmmturkeybacon Queue Order Fix

After completing a HIT anywhere within your queue (i.e. HITs Assigned To You), this script

As of 2014-07-08. See the latest version.

  1. // ==UserScript==
  2. // @name        mmmturkeybacon Queue Order Fix
  3. // @author      mmmturkeybacon
  4. // @description After completing a HIT anywhere within your queue (i.e. HITs Assigned To You), this script 
  5. //              will automatically continue the HIT at the top* of your queue. If you sort your queue by 
  6. //              Time Left (least first), you can use this script to work around mturk's default** behavior
  7. //              of ignoring what your queue is sorted by. You should only need to set the sort order once.
  8. //              HITs accepted after setting the sort order will be sorted automatically.
  9. //              Additionally you can manually continue the HIT at the top of your queue if you visit
  10. //              "https://www.mturk.com/mturk/myhits?first". Create a bookmark on your
  11. //              toolbar to quickly jump to the first HIT in your queue. This is especially useful if you
  12. //              just caught a HIT that will expire quickly.
  13. //              *The HIT at the top of the queue is determined when the HIT currently being worked on is
  14. //              loaded. This means if a new HIT gets put on the top of the queue after the current HIT has
  15. //              already been loaded it will not be the very next HIT, but the one just after that instead.
  16. //              **To restore the default behavior sort by Assigned On (earliest first).
  17. // @namespace   http://userscripts.org/users/523367
  18. // @match       https://*.mturk.com/mturk/continue*
  19. // @match       https://*.mturk.com/mturk/submit
  20. // @match       https://*.mturk.com/mturk/myhits?first
  21. // @require     http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js
  22. // @version     1.65
  23. // @grant       none
  24. // ==/UserScript==
  25.  
  26. /*
  27.  * Mechanical Turk has two types of HITs. By far the ExternalQuestion HITs are 
  28.  * the most common. These HITs use an iframe to display the task, disable the 
  29.  * yellow Submit HIT button, and use the hidden link with the id hitExternalNextLink
  30.  * to direct the browser to a new page after the task has been submitted in the
  31.  * iframe. The second type of HIT is the QuestionForm HIT. These HITs do not use
  32.  * an iframe, use the yellow Submit HIT button to submit, and do not use
  33.  * hitExternalNextLink to direct the browser to a new page.
  34.  *
  35.  * For ExternalQuestion HITs, fixing the queue order is as simple as replacing
  36.  * hitExternalNextLink with the URL of the next link you wish to work on.
  37.  *
  38.  * QuestionForm HITs don't use the hitExternalNextLink, however we can utilize
  39.  * the fact that after a QuestionForm HIT is submitted the URL ends with 
  40.  * /mturk/submit to redirect the browser to the top of the queue.
  41.  *
  42.  */
  43.  
  44. $(document).ready(function()
  45. {
  46.     var this_URL = window.location.href.split("mturk.com")[1];
  47.     /* preview?groupId=GROUPIDSTRING&isPreviousIFrame= indicates not in queue
  48.      * preview?isPreviousIFrame= indicates we are in the queue */
  49.     var hitExternalNextLink = $('a[href^="/mturk/preview?isPreviousIFrame="][id="hitExternalNextLink"]');
  50.  
  51.     if (hitExternalNextLink.length > 0)
  52.     { // inside queue
  53.         if (this_URL.split('?')[0] == '/mturk/continue' && $('img[alt="Submit from within the iframe"][src="/images/submit_hit_disabled.gif"]').length > 0)
  54.         { // ExternalQuestion HIT
  55.           /* Setting hitExternalNextLink in a QuestionForm is harmless but doing
  56.            * so would require an unnecessary $.get page request, so it's best to
  57.            * only change hitExternalNextLink for ExternalQuestion HITs */
  58.             $.get('/mturk/myhits', function(data)
  59.             {
  60.                 var first_queue_URL = $(data).find('a[href^="/mturk/continue"]').eq(0).attr('href');
  61.                 if (first_queue_URL)
  62.                 {
  63.                     if (this_URL == first_queue_URL)
  64.                     {
  65.                         var second_queue_URL = $(data).find('a[href^="/mturk/continue"]').eq(1).attr('href');
  66.                         if (second_queue_URL)
  67.                         {
  68.                             hitExternalNextLink.attr('href', second_queue_URL);
  69.                         }
  70.                     }
  71.                     else
  72.                     {
  73.                         hitExternalNextLink.attr('href', first_queue_URL);
  74.                     }
  75.                 }
  76.             });
  77.         }
  78.         else if (this_URL == '/mturk/submit')
  79.         { // next HIT after a QuestionForm HIT was submitted
  80.             $.get('/mturk/myhits', function(data)
  81.             {
  82.                 var first_queue_URL = $(data).find('a[href^="/mturk/continue"]').eq(0).attr('href');
  83.                 if (first_queue_URL)
  84.                 {
  85.                     window.location.replace(first_queue_URL);
  86.                 }
  87.             });
  88.         }
  89.     }
  90.     else if (this_URL == '/mturk/myhits?first')
  91.     { // bookmark link was used
  92.         $.get('/mturk/myhits', function(data)
  93.         {
  94.             var first_queue_URL = $(data).find('a[href^="/mturk/continue"]').eq(0).attr('href');
  95.             if (first_queue_URL)
  96.             {
  97.                 window.location.replace(first_queue_URL);
  98.             }
  99.         });
  100.     }
  101.     // else it's a submit link but not inside the queue, so do nothing
  102.  
  103. });