--- title: Quip API Integration on Truto slug: quip category: Default canonical: "https://truto.one/integrations/detail/quip/" --- # Quip API Integration on Truto **Category:** Default **Status:** Generally available ## How it works 1. **Link your customer's Quip account.** Use Truto's frontend SDK; we handle every OAuth and API key flow so you don't need to create the OAuth app. 2. **Authentication is automatic.** Truto refreshes tokens, stores credentials securely, and injects them into every API request. 3. **Call Truto's API to reach Quip.** The Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Quip API. 4. **Get a unified response format.** Every response uses a single shape, with cursor-based pagination and data in the `result` field. ## Use cases - **Auto-generate collaborative deal documents from your platform** — Sales enablement and proposal SaaS companies can automatically create Quip documents pre-populated with deal data when opportunities hit key stages, giving their users a seamless transition from pipeline management to live collaboration without manual copy-paste. - **Push real-time incident updates into Quip swarming docs** — IT alerting and incident management platforms can spin up dedicated Quip documents for each incident and continuously post diagnostic updates into the document's chat thread, acting as an automated scribe while engineers collaborate on resolution. - **Sync onboarding progress into shared customer-facing Quip docs** — Customer success and project management tools can dynamically update embedded progress trackers inside Quip documents as tasks complete, so end customers always see live status without needing a separate login. - **Automate document export for compliance and archival** — Data governance and compliance platforms can bulk-export Quip documents as PDF, DOCX, or XLSX on a scheduled basis, satisfying retention policies without requiring manual downloads from end users. - **Provision and deprovision document access based on team changes** — HRIS-connected platforms can automatically add or remove users from Quip folders and documents when team assignments change, ensuring document access stays in sync with organizational structure. ## What you can build - **Template-based document generation** — Create pre-formatted Quip documents from HTML templates populated with your platform's data — account plans, proposals, runbooks — triggered by workflow events. - **Contextual chat notifications in documents** — Post structured messages into a Quip document's chat thread whenever relevant events occur in your product, keeping all collaboration context anchored to the document. - **Live progress tracker embedded in Quip** — Dynamically update HTML tables or checklists inside existing Quip documents as tasks, milestones, or metrics change in your application. - **Scheduled document export pipeline** — Automatically export Quip threads as PDF, DOCX, or XLSX on a recurring schedule and route them to your platform's storage or compliance vault. - **Automated folder and permission management** — Create shared Quip folders for new accounts or projects and manage member access programmatically as team rosters change in your product. - **Bidirectional document metadata sync** — Read Quip thread metadata — last edited timestamps, collaborator lists, sharing settings — back into your platform to power dashboards, audit logs, or engagement scoring. ## FAQs ### What authentication methods does Quip support? Quip supports OAuth 2.0 for user-level access and personal API tokens for developer use. For tenant-wide operations, the Quip Admin API uses a separate admin token scoped to the Salesforce org. Truto handles the OAuth flow and token refresh so your team doesn't manage credentials directly. ### What are Quip's API rate limits? Quip's Automation API enforces rate limits on a per-user-token basis. The documented default is approximately 50 requests per minute per token, though limits can vary. Truto can manage retry and backoff logic so your integration handles throttling gracefully. ### What core data objects are available through Quip's API? Quip's API is organized around Threads (documents, spreadsheets, chat rooms), Messages (chat entries on a thread), Folders (organizational hierarchy and permissions), Users (collaborator profiles), and Blobs (embedded files and images). All document types share the Thread abstraction. ### Can I create and edit Quip documents programmatically? Yes. Quip's API accepts standard HTML as the content payload for creating new documents and for appending or modifying sections of existing documents. This makes it straightforward to map structured data from your platform into formatted Quip content. ### Is the Quip integration available as a prebuilt Unified API on Truto? Quip is not yet mapped to a Truto Unified API. It is available as a custom integration built on request. Truto handles auth, pagination, and API normalization so your team can start building against Quip's API without managing those concerns directly. ### What file export formats does Quip support? Quip's API supports exporting threads as PDF, DOCX, and XLSX depending on the thread type. This is useful for compliance archival, downstream contract workflows, or rendering documents outside the Quip environment.