openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Appen Platform Account Info Manage Job Settings API version: 1.0.0 description: "# Introduction\nHello, and welcome to Appen, the leading data annotation platform for Machine Learning. Our API enables developers to build applications that can programmatically create, edit, and launch Appen jobs, download results, and more! \n\nAppen uses a RESTful API that accepts data requests as URL-encoded key-value pairs. Responses are returned in JSON and authentication is key-based.\n\nBefore integrating with the API, we highly recommend you first build and run a job using our [graphical user interface](https://client.appen.com/sessions/new). Once you have run a job successfully and are satisfied with the results, you can automate the process using the Appen API.\n\n# Authentication\nYou will need to supply your Appen API key to access the API. To find your API key:\n1. Click the Account button located in the bottom corner of the Global Navigation bar on the left side of any page.\n![Appen Authentication](/assets/img/authentication1.png \"Appen Authentication\")\n2. Click the API tab and find your key listed under the Your API Key section. \n![Appen API](/assets/img/authentication2.png \"Appen API key\")\n\nFor requests listed below, the API Key will be listed as `{api_key}`. \n\nThe API key needs to be included in the header for every request: \n```\n headers: { \n\n \"AUTHORIZATION\" => \"Token token={api_key}\" \n\n } \n```\n\nYou may also see other variables, such as `{job_id}` for operations pertaining to a specific job, or `{team_id}` when completing operations relevant to an entire team (like listing all available jobs). Job ID's can be determined from the job listing page or the URL. A team id is visible in the URL of the Teams tab in the Account page. \n# Resources\nThere are three primary data objects on Appen that correspond to resources on the API:\n## Jobs\nA **Job** is an interface that connects your data to an online workforce.\n Each job on the Appen platform has data, instructions, customizable questions for your use case\n (written in **CML** [](https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/202817989-CML-Custom-Markup-Language-Overview)),\n [test questions](https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/202702985-How-to-Create-Test-Questions),\n and is worked on by *Contributors*. Contributors submit *Judgments* on the rows of data via a worker interface. \n * All jobs in a single account can be found [on your jobs page](https://client.appen.com/jobs) and will be\n identified by a unique numeric id.\n## Units (also known as 'Rows')\nA **Unit** of data is uploaded to the job from your source data file via API or GUI. \n## Judgments \nA **Judgment** is the set of responses submitted by a contributor on a particular unit of data. It is\n recommended to collect multiple judgments and compare them to one another or aggregate to the top response. For\n each job, you can specify the number of judgments you would like each row to receive.\n# Responses and Messaging\nEach request to the Appen API returns an HTTP status code response and one or both of the following:\n* An application response message (in JSON) \n* A JSON representation of the object (job, unit, or judgments) requested\nSee the below sections of different API Requests, Responses and Messaging for more information:\n1. [Job Create/Update](/#tag/Job-CreateUpdate)\n2. [Manage Job Data](/#tag/Manage-Job-Data)\n3. [Job Status](/#tag/Job-Status)\n4. [Monitor Contributors](/#tag/Monitor-Contributors)\n5. [Manage Job Settings](/#tag/Manage-Job-Settings)\n6. [Job Results](/#tag/Job-Results)\n7. [Account Info](/#tag/Account-Info)\n" license: name: Licensed under Apache 2.0 url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html termsOfService: https://www.appen.com/privacy-statement/ contact: email: help@appen.com servers: - url: https://api.appen.com/v1 description: Production Server tags: - name: Manage Job Settings description: Manage various job settings. externalDocs: url: https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/202703435-Jobs-Resource-Attributes paths: /jobs/{job_id}.json: put: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: Update a given job. description: 'Update various elements of a job. Your job must have a valid title, instructions, and one "required" CML form element to be launched successfully. ' parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' - in: query name: job[title] description: Updates the title of the Job. required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[instructions] description: Updates the instructions of the Job. required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[cml] description: Updates the CML of the Job. required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[css] description: Updates the CSS of the Job. required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[payment_cents] description: 'Determines the amount, in cents, that Contributors will be paid per Task ' required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[judgments_per_unit] description: Unit in the refers to a single row in the job required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[quiz_length_configured] description: True, for custom number of test questions in Quiz mode required: false schema: type: boolean - in: query name: job[quiz_length] description: Number of test questions in quiz required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[options][req_ttl_in_seconds] description: Set the amount of time per assignment. Default is set to 30 minutes. required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[units_per_assignment] description: Sets the number of Rows that will comprise one Page within a Job. required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[variable_judgments_mode] description: 'Accepts "none" or "auto_confidence". Use in combination with job[options][confidence_fields], job[max_judgments_per_unit], and job[min_unit_confidence] to set dynamic judgments. More info [Job Launch > Job Settings > Guide to Dynamic Judgments](https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/203219205-Job-Settings-Guide-to-Dynamic-Judgments) ' required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[options][confidence_fields] description: 'CML form element name that determines row finalization for dynamic judgments. More info in the Success center at [Job Launch > Job Settings > Guide to Dynamic Judgments](https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/203219205-Job-Settings-Guide-to-Dynamic-Judgments) ' required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[max_judgments_per_unit] description: 'Maximum number of judgments collected per row. More info in the Success center at [Job Launch > Job Settings > Guide to Dynamic Judgments](https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/203219205-Job-Settings-Guide-to-Dynamic-Judgments) ' required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[min_unit_confidence] description: 'Minimum confidence needed to finalize a row (a number from 0 to 1). More info in the Success center at [Job Launch > Job Settings > Guide to: Dynamic Judgments](https://success.appen.com/hc/en-us/articles/203219205-Job-Settings-Guide-to-Dynamic-Judgments) ' required: false schema: type: number - in: query name: job[auto_order] description: Automatically launch rows as they are added to the Job required: false schema: type: boolean - in: query name: job[auto_order_timout] description: 'The time in seconds before automatic ordering of any new rows will occur. auto_order must be enabled. ' required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[auto_order_threshold] description: 'The job must have at least this many new rows—or the timeout must have passed—before new rows will be ordered automatically. This setting must be greater than the number of rows per page minus the number of Test Questions shown per page. auto_order must be enabled. ' required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[ignore_overlapping_names] description: 'When enabling auto-order, you may encounter the following response message: "You created column headers that duplicate the original uploaded column headers: ''example''. Please use unique column headers or allow duplicate column headers by adding the ignore_overlapping_names=true flag." Ignore_overlapping_names allows a job to be launched where a CML name duplicates a source column header. ' required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[options][htl_report] description: Toggle confidence summary required: false schema: type: boolean - in: query name: job[webhook_uri] description: Add webhook URL required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[options][logical_aggregation] description: Toggle logical aggregation required: false schema: type: boolean - in: query name: job[max_judgments_per_worker] description: Set max judgments per contributor required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[min_assignment_duration] description: Set minimum time per page (expressed as seconds) required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[options][reject_at] description: Set minimum accuracy required: false schema: type: integer - in: query name: job[units_remain_finalized] description: Rows will not order new judgments once they are finalized, even if judgments become untrusted required: false schema: type: boolean - in: query name: job[schedule_fifo] description: Schedule rows to collect judgments based on the order in which they were posted to the job required: false schema: type: boolean - in: query name: job[included_countries] description: A list of allowed country codes in ISO 3166 format (e.g. - ["US", "GB"]) designating countries where contributors are allowed to annotate. Only one of included_countries or excluded_countries can be set per Job. No more than 20 countries can be included. required: false schema: type: string - in: query name: job[excluded_countries] description: A list of forbidden country codes in ISO 3166 format (e.g. - ["US", "GB"]) designating countries where contributors are not allowed to annotate. Only one of included_countries or excluded_countries can be set per Job. No more than 15 countries can be excluded. required: false schema: type: string responses: '200': description: OK. The request was successful. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/new_job' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: "curl -X PUT \\\n\"https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}.json\" \\ \n--data-urlencode \"job[title]=A new title for the Job\" \\\n-H \"Authorization: Token token={api_key}\" \n" /jobs/{job_id}/tags: get: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: View all job tags. description: View all tags in a job. parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' responses: '200': description: 'JSON application message indicating status of the operation (e.g., "Unit was successfully created") ' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: 'curl -X GET \ "https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/tags" \ -H "Authorization: Token token={api_key}" ' post: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: Add a job tag. description: Add a new tag to a job parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' - in: query name: tag description: Specify the name of a tag required: true schema: type: string responses: '200': description: 'JSON application message indicating status of the operation (e.g., "Unit was successfully created") ' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: 'curl -X POST \ "https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/tags" \ --data-urlencode "tags=your_job_tag" \ -H "Authorization: Token token={api_key}" ' put: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: Replace job tags. description: Replace the tags in a job parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' - in: query name: tag description: 'Specify the name of a tag. Accepts multiple tags, separate tags with commas i.e. tag1, tag2, tag3, ..., tagn ' required: true schema: type: string responses: '200': description: 'JSON application message indicating status of the operation (e.g. ''Unit was successfully created'') ' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: 'curl -X PUT \ "https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/tags" \ --data-urlencode "tags={tag1,tag2}" \ -H "Authorization: Token token={api_key}" \ ' /jobs/{job_id}/channels: get: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: List of channels settings description: View all labor Channels via which the Job can be accessed. parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' responses: '200': description: OK - List of available and enabled Channels content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/channels' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: 'curl -X GET \ "https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/channels" \ -H "Authorization: Token token={api_key}" ' post: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: Add a contributor channel to the job. description: "Add a **Channel** via which the **Job** can be accessed and worked on by **Contributors**. \n" parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/channel_id' responses: '200': description: OK - List of available and enabled channels. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/channels' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: 'curl -X POST \ "https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/channels" \ --data-urlencode "channels={channel_id}" \ -H "Authorization: Token token={api_key}" \ ' /jobs/{job_id}/disable_channel: post: tags: - Manage Job Settings summary: Disconnect a channel from the job. description: Remove a channel via which the job can be accessed. parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/job_id' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/channel_id' responses: '200': description: OK - List of available and enabled channels. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/channels' x-code-samples: - lang: Shell label: cURL source: 'curl -X POST \ "https://api.appen.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/disable_channel" \ --data "channel_name={channel_id}" \ -H "Authorization: Token token={api_key}" ' components: parameters: channel_id: in: query name: channel_id description: "A unique identifier for a group of contributors. Variable name: `{channel_id}`. \n" required: true schema: type: string api_key: name: key in: query required: true description: "Your personal Appen API key; used to access the Appen platform. Can be found in your [account settings](https://client.appen.com/account/api). Variable name: `{api_key}`. \n" schema: type: string job_id: in: path name: job_id description: "A unique identifier for a job or task that is distributed to contributors. Variable name: `{job_id}`. \n" required: true schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/new_job_id' schemas: new_job_id: description: Integer identifier of the requested resource (Job, Unit, Workflow) used in API request paths and response bodies. type: integer format: int64 readOnly: true minimum: 1 maximum: 9223372036854776000 example: 1234567 channels: properties: available_channels: type: array items: type: string example: - channelOne - channelTwo enabled_channels: type: array items: type: string example: - channelOne message: type: string example: Individual channel targeting will be deprecated soon. Please see the Appen API documentation for more info. new_job: title: new_job properties: id: $ref: '#/components/schemas/new_job_id' options: description: TBD type: object default: {} title: type: string maxLength: 254 description: 'The name of the Job, this will be shown to contributers looking for tasks to work on. ' default: null example: Select the animal types in the image. secret: type: string format: byte example: aBcbdE01fgHijKL2mnopq3r45sTUVwxYzr6abCdeFg readOnly: true project_number: type: string description: Admin field default: null alias: description: 'Alternate "human-readable" identifier for Jobs, can be used in place of `job_id` in requests. ' type: string default: null judgments_per_unit: type: integer format: int32 description: Number of judgments to collect for each Unit in the Job default: 3 units_per_assignment: type: integer format: int32 description: Number of units to reserve for a single task assignment default: 5 pages_per_assignment: type: integer format: int32 description: Number of pages to split a single assignment into default: 1 max_judgments_per_worker: type: integer format: int32 description: Number of questions to limit a worker to across assignments for this Job default: null gold_per_assignment: type: integer format: int32 description: Number of test questions to include with each assignment of units default: 1 minimum_account_age_seconds: type: integer format: int32 description: Unused internal field default: null execution_mode: type: string enum: - builder - worker_ui_remix - template - entrance_exam default: worker_ui_remix payment_cents: type: integer format: int32 description: Amount to pay in US Cents per assignment default: 35 design_verified: description: '`true` if the Job design has been inspected and approved by an admin. ' type: boolean default: false readOnly: true public_data: description: '`true` if the Job is part of the **Data For Everyone** project. ' type: boolean default: false readOnly: true variable_judgments_mode: type: string enum: - none - auto_confidence - external default: none max_judgments_per_unit: type: integer format: int32 description: Maximum number of Judgments to allow per Contributor per Job default: null expected_judgments_per_unit: type: integer format: int32 description: TBD default: null min_unit_confidence: type: integer format: int32 description: TBD default: null units_remain_finalized: description: if `true`, once units have collected enough judgments they cannot be unfinalized. type: boolean default: false auto_order_timeout: type: integer format: int32 description: Maximum number of seconds to wait before ordering last units to arrive for auto_order, whether or not the threshold has been reached. default: null auto_order_threshold: type: integer format: int32 description: Minimum number of units to wait for before creating an assignment default: 4 completed_at: type: string format: date-time readOnly: true default: null state: description: Indicator of current part of the Job life-cycle type: string enum: - unordered - running - paused - canceled - finished - locked_out - data_deleted - archiving - archived - launching default: unordered readOnly: true auto_order: description: if `true`, once enough new units are uploaded or the timeout is reached they will be automatically ordered. type: boolean default: false webhook_uri: type: string format: URL description: External URL to send finalized unit data default: null send_judgments_webhook: type: string format: URL description: External URL to send raw contributor annotation data default: null language: type: string description: The language the job instructions and questions are written in. default: en minimum_requirements: type: array items: type: string description: A list of qualifications contributors _must_ meet in order to participate in the Job default: null desired_requirements: type: array items: type: string description: A list of "nice-to-have" qualifications that make contributors a better fit as annotators for this Job default: null team_id: type: string format: uuid max_work_per_network: type: integer format: int32 description: Maximum number of units that can be completed via one particular contributor channel. default: null copied_from: type: integer format: int64 description: ID of the Job that was used as a template to create this job. default: null assignment_duration: type: integer format: int32 description: The length in seconds to allow for completing a task. If this time expires before an assignment is complete the unfinished units will be released for assignment to another contributor. default: 1800 created_at: description: Timestamp of when the job was created type: string format: date-time readOnly: true updated_at: description: Timestamp of the last User or API action that changed a Job state or setting. type: string format: date-time readOnly: true included_countries: description: A whitelist of country codes designating countries where contributors **are allowed** to annotate. Only one of `included_countries` or `excluded_countries` can be set per Job. type: array items: type: string default: null excluded_countries: description: A blacklist of country codes designating countries where contributors **are _not_ allowed** to annotate. Only one of `included_countries` or `excluded_countries` can be set per Job. type: array items: type: string default: null instructions: type: string description: 'The instructions markup describing how to perform the requested task. ' default: '' cml: type: string description: 'The javascript escaped CML markup describing how to render the requested task. ' default: null example: '

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' js: type: string description: Custom javascript functions for job CML default: null css: type: string description: Custom styles for the instructions and CML default: null confidence_fields: description: TBD type: array items: type: object default: null gold: description: TBD type: object default: {} units_count: description: Number of units in the Job type: integer format: int32 readOnly: true default: 0 golds_count: description: Number of test questions in the Job type: integer format: int32 readOnly: true default: 0 judgments_count: description: Number of collected judgments, determined by Job state and configured number of judgments per unit type: integer format: int32 readOnly: true default: 0 support_email: description: Email of the user to be contacted in case of support issue. type: string format: email example: your.email@example-email.com worker_ui_remix: description: Unused internal value type: boolean default: true readOnly: true crowd_costs: description: US Cents spent on the job so far. type: integer format: int32 default: 0 readOnly: true quiz_mode_enabled: description: '`true` if Job has test question quality controls enabled. (requires test questions in the unit data for the job to be launched) ' type: boolean default: false readOnly: true completed: type: boolean default: false readOnly: true fields: description: TBD type: array items: type: object default: null readOnly: true order_approved: description: '**Admin field** `true` if this job is able to be launched. i.e. the ordering of Units has been approved' type: boolean default: false readOnly: true