What is this?
Wise Words From Theaetetus is a web service for all your Theaetetus quoting needs.
I thought it would be funny to have a Theaetetus quote generater because most of the time Theaetetus would say something like "Very true, Socrates" after Socrates talked for 5 minute about how he's like a midwife for your brain. I don't think it turned out to be as funny as I thought it would be but hopefully it would be useful for someone.
How do I use this?
All query parameters are optional. If no parameter is set, the request would return all lines in the Theaetetus
Query 1: Retrieve lines from a certain speaker
Request Format: theaetetus.php?speaker={name}
Request Type: GET
Returned Data Format: JSON
Description: This request takes any speaker in the Theaetetus as a parameter and returns all lines spoken by the speaker.
Query 2: Get lines that contain a certain word
Request Format: theaetetus.php?contain={word}
Request Type: GET
Returned Data Format: JSON
Description: This request takes a word as a parameter and returns all lines under that contains the word.
Query 3: Retrieve lines under than a certain character count
Request Format: theaetetus.php?char_limit={number}
Request Type: GET
Returned Data Format: JSON
Description: This request takes a character count as a parameter and returns all lines under than the character count.
Query 4: Retrieve a random line
Request Format: theaetetus.php?mode=random_quote
Request Type: GET
Returned Data Format: plain text
Description: This request returns a random line from all lines that matches other query parameters in a formatted string ("{dialogue}" - {speaker})