feat(api): add account creation automation shell script

[hoangsonww]

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Pull Request Overview

Adds a new Bash script to automate creating user accounts via the Prolific admin API by selecting a random subset of participants from a TSV file.

• Introduces create_accounts.sh to handle input parsing, random sampling, JSON construction, and bulk API requests.
• Validates the input file exists and enforces strict error handling with set -euo pipefail.

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create_accounts.sh:14

• [nitpick] This comment duplicates the previous line—consider removing or merging it to avoid redundancy.

# The script will also print the number of accounts created.

create_accounts.sh:19

• The API_KEY assignment is missing a closing double quote, causing a syntax error. Add the closing ".

API_KEY="api_key_here

[Copilot]

The script ignores the first column (Occupation/Specialty) and hardcodes position, employer, etc. Unpack all three fields (e.g., read -r occupation email id) and use "$occupation" instead of a fixed string to keep data accurate.

Suggested change

	while IFS=$'\t' read -r _ pair; do
	IFS='|' read -r email id <<< "$pair"
	users_json+=$(
	printf '{"name":"Prolific ID: %s","email":"%s","position":"Physician Assistant (PA)","employer":"n/a","area_of_clinical_ex":"n/a"},' \
	"$id" "$email"
	)
	count=$((count+1))
	[ "$count" -ge "$NUM_SAMPLES" ] && break
	done < <(random_stream)
	while IFS=$'\t' read -r occupation email id; do
	users_json+=$(
	printf '{"name":"Prolific ID: %s","email":"%s","position":"%s","employer":"n/a","area_of_clinical_ex":"n/a"},' \
	"$id" "$email" "$occupation"
	)
	count=$((count+1))
	[ "$count" -ge "$NUM_SAMPLES" ] && break
	done < <(random_stream | awk -F'|' '{print $1"\t"$2"\t"$3}')

[Copilot]

Hardcoding placeholder values can cause confusion. Instead, read from the environment and validate, e.g.: : "${API_URL:?Please set API_URL}" and remove the default assignment.

Suggested change

	API_URL="api_url_here"
	API_KEY="api_key_here
	: "${API_URL:?Error: Please set API_URL environment variable}"
	: "${API_KEY:?Error: Please set API_KEY environment variable}"