diff --git a/.github/workflows/apidocs-action.yml b/.github/workflows/apidocs-action.yml
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/apidocs-action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+name: API Documentation
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'develop'
+
+jobs:
+
+  build:
+    name: Generate API Docs
+    if: (github.repository == 'codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup PHP
+        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
+        with:
+          php-version: '7.2'
+          extensions: intl, json, mbstring, mysqlnd, xdebug, xml, sqlite3
+          coverage: xdebug
+
+      - name: Download GraphViz for phpDocumentor
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install -yq graphviz
+
+      # I can't get curl download this correctly. The phar file has
+      # appended HTML saying it is redirected. Any clues?
+      # For now, I manually downloaded the phar
+      # - name: Download phpDocumentor
+      #   run: |
+      #     curl https://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor/releases/download/v2.9.1/phpDocumentor.phar -o ./admin/phpDocumentor.phar
+
+      - name: Prepare source
+        run: |
+          rm -rf ./build/api*
+          mkdir -p ./build/api/docs
+          cd build/api
+          git init
+          git remote add origin https://github.com/codeigniter4/api.git
+          git fetch
+          git checkout master
+          git reset --hard origin/master
+          rm -r docs/*
+
+      - name: Make the new API docs
+        run: |
+          chmod +x ./admin/phpDocumentor.phar
+          ./admin/phpDocumentor.phar
+          cp -R ./api/build/* ./build/api/docs
+
+      - name: Deploy API
+        run: |
+          cd ./build/api
+          git config --global user.email "action@github.com"
+          git config --global user.name "${GITHUB_ACTOR}"
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "API bot sync for ${GITHUB_SHA}"
+          git push -f origin master
diff --git a/admin/apibot b/admin/apibot
index 75a0eb27b2..08b451a04b 100755
--- a/admin/apibot
+++ b/admin/apibot
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ mkdir -p build/api/docs
 cd build/api
 git init
 git remote add origin $UPSTREAM
-git fetch 
+git fetch
 git checkout master
 git reset --hard origin/master
 rm -r docs/*
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ if [ $1 = "deploy" ]; then
   git add .
   git commit -S -m "APIbot synching"
   git push -f origin master
-fi
\ No newline at end of file
+fi
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