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Quip is a collaborative productivity platform that combines documents, spreadsheets, and chat in one integrated workspace, enabling teams to work together seamlessly on projects and documents with real-time collaboration features.

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Power end-to-end data operations for your Quip API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Quip connector is purpose-built for Quip, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Quip or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Quip workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

  • Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
  • Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
  • API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
  • Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites​

Before creating a Quip credential, you need to obtain your Personal Access Token from your Quip account. Quip uses Personal Access Token authentication for all API requests, with the token sent in the Authorization header with the Bearer prefix.

To obtain your Quip Personal Access Token, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to your Quip account using your administrator credentials.

  2. Navigate to your account settings or profile settings in the Quip interface.

  3. Look for the API or Personal Access Tokens section in your account settings, or navigate to Settings > API or Developer > Personal Access Tokens.

  4. If you don't have a Personal Access Token yet, look for the option to generate or create your Personal Access Token.

  5. Click Generate Personal Access Token or Create Personal Access Token to create a new token.

  6. Configure your Personal Access Token settings:

    • Enter a name for the token (e.g., "Nexla Integration")
    • Review and select the permissions or scopes for the token (if applicable)

  7. Click Generate or Create to create the Personal Access Token.

  8. Copy the Personal Access Token immediately after it's generated, as it may not be accessible again after you navigate away from the page.

  9. Store the Personal Access Token securely, as you will need it to configure your Nexla credential. The Personal Access Token is sensitive information and should be kept confidential.

The Personal Access Token is sent in the Authorization: Bearer {token} header for all API requests to the Quip API. The Personal Access Token authenticates your requests and grants access to Quip resources based on your account permissions. If your Personal Access Token is compromised, you should immediately revoke it in your Quip account settings and generate a new one. For detailed information about obtaining Personal Access Tokens, API authentication, and available endpoints, refer to the Quip API documentation.

Authenticate​

Credentials required​

FieldRequiredSecretDescription
Quip API Authentication MethodYesNoYour access token that provides API access to your Quip account. View https://quip.com/dev/automation/documentation#setup for details. Allowed values: Personal Authentication
Personal Access TokenYesYesQuip access token that provides API access to your Quip account. View https://quip.com/dev/automation/documentation#setup for details.

Create a credential in Nexla​

  1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Quip

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  1. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

Personal Access Token Authentication​

Quip uses Personal Access Token authentication for all API requests. The Personal Access Token is sent in the Authorization header with the Bearer prefix to authenticate API requests to the Quip API.

  1. Select the authentication method from the Quip API Authentication Method pulldown menu. Available options include Personal Authentication (default). The authentication method determines how your Quip account will be authenticated.

  2. Enter your Quip Personal Access Token in the Personal Access Token field. This is the Personal Access Token you obtained from your Quip account settings (Settings > API or Developer > Personal Access Tokens) in Prerequisites. The Personal Access Token is sent in the Authorization: Bearer {token} header for all API requests to the Quip API and must be kept confidential.

    Your Quip Personal Access Token can be found in your Quip account settings under Settings > API or Developer > Personal Access Tokens. The Personal Access Token is sent in the Authorization: Bearer {token} header for all API requests to the Quip API.

    If your Personal Access Token is compromised, you should immediately revoke it in your Quip account settings and generate a new one. The Personal Access Token provides access to your Quip account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Keep your Personal Access Token secure and do not share it publicly.

    For detailed information about obtaining Personal Access Tokens, API authentication, and available endpoints, see the Quip API documentation.

  3. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source​

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Quip connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to your Quip account, and click Next; or, create a new Quip credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates​

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Quip endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Get Contacts

This endpoint template returns a list of the contacts for the authenticated user from your Quip account. Use this template when you need to retrieve information about contacts, including contact IDs, names, and other contact metadata. Click on API Documentation URL for more information.

  • This endpoint automatically retrieves all contacts for the authenticated user from your Quip account. No additional configuration is required beyond selecting this endpoint template.

This endpoint returns a list of contacts for the authenticated user from your Quip account, including contact IDs, names, and other contact metadata. Use this endpoint to discover which contacts are available in your Quip account.

For detailed information about contact management, API response structures, and available contact data, see the Quip API documentation.

Get Information for Users

This endpoint template retrieves information for users from your Quip account. Input users as a comma-separated list of emails or IDs. Use this template when you need to retrieve information about specific users, including user IDs, names, and other user metadata. Click on API Documentation URL for more information.

  • Enter the users list in the Users List field. This should be a comma-separated list of user emails or IDs for which you want to retrieve information (e.g., user1@example.com,user2@example.com or 12345,67890). The users list determines which users' information will be retrieved.

This endpoint returns information for users from your Quip account, including user IDs, names, and other user metadata. The endpoint accepts a comma-separated list of user emails or IDs and returns information for all specified users.

For detailed information about user management, API response structures, and available user data, see the Quip API documentation.

Search for Threads

This endpoint template returns threads whose content matches words in the given query from your Quip account. Use this template when you need to search for threads based on content or keywords. Click on API Documentation URL for more information.

  • Enter the search query in the Query field. This should be the search query containing words you want to match in thread content. The query determines which threads will be returned based on content matching.
  • Select whether to only match titles from the Match Titles field. Available options include true (only match thread titles) and false (match thread content). The match titles option determines whether the search will be limited to thread titles or include thread content.

This endpoint returns threads whose content matches words in the given query from your Quip account, including thread IDs, titles, and other thread metadata. The endpoint returns up to 50 matching threads by default.

For detailed information about thread search, API response structures, and available thread data, see the Quip API documentation.

Get Recent Threads

This endpoint template returns the most recent threads to have received messages from your Quip account, similar to the updates view in the Quip app. Use this template when you need to retrieve recently updated threads. Click on API Documentation URL for more information.

  • This endpoint automatically retrieves the most recent threads from your Quip account. No additional configuration is required beyond selecting this endpoint template.

This endpoint returns the most recent threads to have received messages from your Quip account, including thread IDs, titles, and other thread metadata. The endpoint returns threads similar to the updates view in the Quip app.

For detailed information about recent threads, API response structures, and available thread data, see the Quip API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration​

Quip data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Quip API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom query parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Quip API endpoints typically use the GET method and the /1/ version path (e.g., https://platform.quip.com/1/users/contacts, https://platform.quip.com/1/threads/recent). For the Response Data Path, use $[*] to extract all items from a response array, or $ to extract the entire response for single-record endpoints, depending on the endpoint.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Next button to proceed with the rest of the data flow configuration, or click Save to save the new Quip data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.