diff --git a/doc/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
index 94dd3457fb5b513441c4c8e339e1862de9092517..58ce5d61c950d12630cfe1de354ffc2a2ba1fd59 100644
--- a/doc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -47,3 +47,5 @@ sphinx_add_target(paddle_docs_cn
                   ${SPHINX_CACHE_DIR_CN}
                   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
                   ${SPHINX_HTML_DIR_CN})
+
+add_subdirectory(api)
diff --git a/doc/api/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/api/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e0bc1d5b8e799ef86cb92a0dda348b0be4e299a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/api/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# configured documentation tools and intermediate build results
+set(BINARY_BUILD_DIR_EN "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/en/_build")
+
+# Sphinx cache with pickled ReST documents
+set(SPHINX_CACHE_DIR_EN "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/en/_doctrees")
+
+# HTML output director
+set(SPHINX_HTML_DIR_EN "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/en/html")
+
+configure_file(
+    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../templates/conf.py.en.in"
+    "${BINARY_BUILD_DIR_EN}/conf.py"
+    @ONLY)
+
+sphinx_add_target(paddle_api_docs
+                  html
+                  ${BINARY_BUILD_DIR_EN}
+                  ${SPHINX_CACHE_DIR_EN}
+                  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+                  ${SPHINX_HTML_DIR_EN})
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
index 59f3af03986793a4185bc5933d26888e89d555f7..ba496db5f834efe767bfe446a46877932faa81a0 100644
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ EOF
             -DWITH_STYLE_CHECK=OFF
         make -j `nproc` gen_proto_py
         make -j `nproc` paddle_python
-        make -j `nproc` paddle_docs paddle_docs_cn
+        make -j `nproc` paddle_docs paddle_docs_cn paddle_api_docs
         make -j `nproc` print_operators_doc
         paddle/pybind/print_operators_doc > doc/en/html/operators.json
         popd
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/travis/build_doc.sh b/paddle/scripts/travis/build_doc.sh
index 0db8d33bbcb5278ed0dd5584b5822502b719ede9..4af4ac4f5e43543449ae922d7eb2a5740372f68f 100755
--- a/paddle/scripts/travis/build_doc.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/travis/build_doc.sh
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/build
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_GPU=OFF -DWITH_MKL=OFF -DWITH_DOC=ON
 make -j `nproc` gen_proto_py
 make -j `nproc` paddle_python
-make -j `nproc` paddle_docs paddle_docs_cn
+make -j `nproc` paddle_docs paddle_docs_cn paddle_api_docs
 make -j `nproc` print_operators_doc
 paddle/pybind/print_operators_doc > doc/en/html/operators.json
 
 # check websites for broken links
 linkchecker doc/en/html/index.html
 linkchecker doc/cn/html/index.html
+linkchecker doc/api/en/html/index.html
 
 # Parse Github URL
 REPO=`git config remote.origin.url`
@@ -54,10 +55,11 @@ function deploy_docs() {
   mkdir -p ${DIR}
   # remove old docs. mv new docs.
   set +e
-  rm -rf ${DIR}/doc ${DIR}/doc_cn
+  rm -rf ${DIR}/doc ${DIR}/doc_cn ${DIR}/api_doc
   set -e
   cp -r ../doc/cn/html ${DIR}/doc_cn
   cp -r ../doc/en/html ${DIR}/doc
+  cp -r ../doc/api/en/html ${DIR}/api_doc
   git add .
 }