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  • Get Started
    • Overview
    • Terminology
    • API Fundamentals
    • Your first data collection
  • Core Concepts
    • Finding the right participants
    • Reviewing submissions and rewards
    • Testing study set up
    • Monitoring study progress
    • Managing high loads
    • Running AI Task Builder Batches via Prolific’s API
  • Cookbooks
    • Longitudinal or multi-part studies
    • Collecting original data with AI Task Builder Collections
  • Tooling
    • Prolific CLI
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Welcome to the Prolific API:
Automate human data collection at scale

Use the Prolific API to automate study creation, participant recruitment, and data collection — with built-in participant verification and quality controls.

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Terminology

Get started

Start building your first data collection workflow today. Follow the quick start guide to write your first call and automate data collection from verified participants.
1Create an account
2Create an API Token
3Set up your first study

Cookbooks

Longitudinal studies

Create multi-part or longitudinal studies to collect data from the same participants over multiple time points.

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