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# Welcome to the Prolific API: <br /> Automate human data collection at scale

<h3>Get started</h3>
Start building your first data collection workflow today. Follow the quick [start guide](your-first-data-collection)
to write your first call and automate data collection from verified participants.

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  <Card title={<><span className="get-started-card__number">3</span>Set up your first study</>} href="your-first-data-collection" />
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  Cookbooks
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    Create multi-part or longitudinal studies to collect data from the same participants over multiple time
    points.
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<h3>We build better, faster, and happier when we do it together 💪</h3>
Our chatbot can help with most things like quick answers, docs, and troubleshooting. But if you need a human because
you have a question, hit a roadblock, or want to suggest an improvement - we'd love to hear from you!

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