diff --git a/lib/jsduck/api_exporter.rb b/lib/jsduck/api_exporter.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ba6a15af1029090e812ee404735fd44c910dc39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/jsduck/api_exporter.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+require 'jsduck/json_duck'
+require 'jsduck/class'
+
+module JsDuck
+
+  # Exporter for simple JSON format listing only class name and names
+  # of all of its members.
+  #
+  # It produces the following structure:
+  #
+  # {
+  #   :name => "Panel",
+  #   :members => {
+  #     :cfg => ["width", "height", "title"],
+  #     :method => ["getWidth", "setWidth"],
+  #     ...
+  #   },
+  #   :statics => { ... }
+  # }
+  #
+  class ApiExporter
+    def initialize(relations, opts)
+      # All params ignored, they're present to be compatible with
+      # other exporters.
+    end
+
+    # Extension for filename
+    def extension
+      ".json"
+    end
+
+    # Writes full class data in JSON format to file
+    def write(filename, cls)
+      JsonDuck.write_json(filename, export(cls))
+    end
+
+    def export(cls)
+      {
+        :name => cls[:name],
+        :members => export_members(cls, :members),
+        :statics => export_members(cls, :statics),
+      }
+    end
+
+    def export_members(cls, context)
+      h = {}
+      Class.default_members_hash.each_key do |type|
+        h[type] = cls.members(type, context).map {|m| m[:name] }
+      end
+      h
+    end
+
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/lib/jsduck/app.rb b/lib/jsduck/app.rb
index ce5fbc049c9b9fafcdc1ac4ed1653a8fadb33262..1210ed0dc231dca455c9cf27344e02667652ce0b 100644
--- a/lib/jsduck/app.rb
+++ b/lib/jsduck/app.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ require 'jsduck/class_writer'
 require 'jsduck/source_writer'
 require 'jsduck/app_data'
 require 'jsduck/index_html'
+require 'jsduck/api_exporter'
 require 'jsduck/json_exporter'
 require 'jsduck/json_p_exporter'
 require 'fileutils'
@@ -63,6 +64,16 @@ module JsDuck
           cw = ClassWriter.new(JsonExporter, @relations, @opts)
           cw.write(@opts.output_dir)
         end
+      elsif @opts.export == :api
+        format_classes
+        if @opts.output_dir == :stdout
+          exporter = ApiExporter.new({}, {})
+          puts JsonDuck.generate(@relations.classes.map {|cls| exporter.export(cls) })
+        else
+          FileUtils.rm_rf(@opts.output_dir)
+          cw = ClassWriter.new(ApiExporter, @relations, @opts)
+          cw.write(@opts.output_dir)
+        end
       else
         FileUtils.rm_rf(@opts.output_dir)
         TemplateDir.new(@opts).write
diff --git a/lib/jsduck/options.rb b/lib/jsduck/options.rb
index 4e510de5c560806dc729a93f4c5842692d8ea963..9d9e29cbee810100227ad4e5e5103cb48131d05b 100644
--- a/lib/jsduck/options.rb
+++ b/lib/jsduck/options.rb
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ module JsDuck
 
         opts.on('--export=FORMAT',
           "Instead of HTML docs, exports docs in FORMAT:",
-          "* json - JSON export of all docs.", " ") do |format|
+          "* json - JSON export of all docs.",
+          "* api  - JSON of only class- and member names.", " ") do |format|
           @export = format.to_sym
         end
 
@@ -408,7 +409,7 @@ module JsDuck
       elsif @output_dir == :stdout && !@export
         puts "Output to STDOUT only works when using --export option."
         exit(1)
-      elsif ![nil, :json].include?(@export)
+      elsif ![nil, :json, :api].include?(@export)
         puts "Unknown export format: #{@export}"
         exit(1)
       elsif @output_dir != :stdout