# Welcome to the Prolific API: <br /> 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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      <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">1</span>Create an account</>} href="https://app.prolific.com/register" />

      <Card title={<><span className="get-started-card__number">2</span>Create an API Token</>} href="https://app.prolific.com/researcher/tokens/" />

      <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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