diff --git a/src/pulp_docs/constants.py b/src/pulp_docs/constants.py
index ed33eed..a51349e 100644
--- a/src/pulp_docs/constants.py
+++ b/src/pulp_docs/constants.py
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 """Project constants."""
 
+BASE_TMPDIR_NAME = "pulpdocs_tmp"
+"""Base temporary directory name for all pulp-docs operations."""
+
+OPENAPI_JSON_DIR = "openapi"
+"""Relative to src/pulp_docs/."""
+
+
 SECTION_REPO = "pulp-docs"
 """The repository which contains section pages"""
 
diff --git a/src/pulp_docs/data/openapi_json/.gitkeep b/src/pulp_docs/data/openapi_json/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/src/pulp_docs/openapi.py b/src/pulp_docs/openapi.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7fdf6bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pulp_docs/openapi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+"""
+Module for generating open-api json files for selected Pulp plugins.
+"""
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import NamedTuple
+
+from importlib_resources import files
+
+from pulp_docs.constants import BASE_TMPDIR_NAME
+from pulp_docs.repository import Repo, Repos
+
+
+class PulpPlugin(NamedTuple):
+    """
+    A Pulp plugin.
+
+    Args:
+        name: The repository name for plugin as it exists in github.com
+        label: The label of the plugin as its used in django (e.g, pulpcore.label == core)
+    """
+
+    name: str
+    label: str
+
+
+class OpenAPIGenerator:
+    """
+    Responsible for seting up a python environment with the required
+    Pulp packages to generate openapi schemas for all registered plugins.
+
+    Args:
+        plugin_remotes: A list of git remote urls of the required Pulp packages.
+        target_dir: The path to where the {plugin-label}-api.json files should be saved.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, plugins: list[PulpPlugin], target_dir: Path):
+        URL_TEMPLATE = "https://github.com/pulp/{}"
+        self.plugin_remotes = [URL_TEMPLATE.format(p.name) for p in plugins]
+        self.plugin_labels = [p.label for p in plugins]
+        self.target_dir = target_dir
+        self.tmpdir = Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / BASE_TMPDIR_NAME / "openapi"
+        shutil.rmtree(self.tmpdir, ignore_errors=True)
+        os.makedirs(self.tmpdir, exist_ok=True)
+
+    def generate(self):
+        """Generate openapi json files at target directory."""
+        self.setup_environemnt()
+
+        origin_dir = os.getcwd()
+        os.chdir(self.tmpdir)
+        for component in self.plugin_labels:
+            outfile = str(self.target_dir / f"{component}-api.json")
+            cmd = (
+                "venv/bin/pulpcore-manager",
+                "openapi",
+                "--component",
+                component,
+                "--file",
+                outfile,
+            )
+            subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
+            with open(outfile, "r") as fd:
+                print(fd.read())
+
+        os.chdir(origin_dir)
+
+    def setup_environemnt(self):
+        """
+        Creates virtualenv and install required packages.
+        """
+        # create venv
+        origin_dir = os.getcwd()
+        os.chdir(self.tmpdir)
+        cmd = ("python", "-m", "venv", "venv")
+        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
+
+        # install plugins
+        for plugin_remote in self.plugin_remotes:
+            url = f"git+{plugin_remote}"
+            cmd = ("venv/bin/pip", "install", url)
+            subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
+
+        cmd = ("venv/bin/pip", "list")
+        result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, check=True)
+        print(result.stdout.decode())
+        os.chdir(origin_dir)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # pulp_ostree requires:
+    # sudo dnf install cairo-devel gobject-introspection-devel cairo-gobject-devel
+    repolist = files("pulp_docs").joinpath("data/repolist.yml").absolute()
+    repos = Repos.from_yaml(repolist).get_repos(["content", "core"])
+    repos = [r for r in repos if isinstance(r, Repo)]
+    pulp_plugins = []
+    for repo in repos:
+        # pulp_container: is pinned to pulpcore<3.55
+        # pulp_ansible: importlib-resource pinned to around v5, and rpm requires ~=6 something
+        # pulp_python: requires settings.CONTENT_ORIGIN on module load
+        #   * https://github.com/pulp/pulp_python/blob/5f5854492f631d670c545ffcd61ae9f020d15d0c/pulp_python/app/pypi/views.py#L55
+        if repo.name in ("pulp_ansible", "pulp_container", "pulp_python"):
+            continue
+
+        name = repo.name
+        label = name.split("_")[-1]
+        if name == "pulpcore":
+            label = "core"
+        pulp_plugins.append(PulpPlugin(name, label))
+    print(pulp_plugins)
+
+    # dest = Path("data/openapi")
+    dest = Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / "pulpdocs_tmp"
+    openapi = OpenAPIGenerator(pulp_plugins, dest)
+    openapi.generate()