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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+"""
+Collect the public pandas API documented in the pandas API reference.
+
+Every name listed in an ``autosummary`` directive, or declared by a Python
+object directive such as ``.. type::``, in ``doc/source/reference/*.rst`` is
+joined with the active ``currentmodule`` and printed as a fully qualified
+name, one per line, sorted.
+
+Usage:
+    python collect_public_api.py <path to pandas repository> > public_api.txt
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import re
+from collections.abc import Iterator
+from pathlib import Path
+
+CURRENTMODULE = re.compile(r"^\s*\.\. currentmodule:: (?P<module>\S+)\s*$")
+AUTOSUMMARY = re.compile(r"^(?P<indent>\s*)\.\. autosummary::\s*$")
+ENTRY = re.compile(r"^~?(?P<name>[\w.]+)$")
+OBJECT_DIRECTIVE = re.compile(
+    r"\.\. (?:py:)?(?:attribute|class|data|exception|function|method|type)::"
+    r"\s+(?P<name>[\w.]+)"
+)
+
+
+def indentation(line: str) -> int:
+    return len(line) - len(line.lstrip())
+
+
+def iter_public_names(rst_file: Path) -> Iterator[str]:
+    module = "pandas"
+    block_indent = None
+    for line in rst_file.read_text().splitlines():
+        if block_indent is not None:
+            stripped = line.strip()
+            if not stripped:
+                continue
+            if indentation(line) > block_indent:
+                if stripped.startswith(":"):
+                    continue
+                if (match := ENTRY.match(stripped)) is not None:
+                    yield f"{module}.{match['name']}"
+                continue
+            block_indent = None
+        if (match := CURRENTMODULE.match(line)) is not None:
+            module = match["module"]
+        elif (match := AUTOSUMMARY.match(line)) is not None:
+            block_indent = len(match["indent"])
+        elif (match := OBJECT_DIRECTIVE.search(line)) is not None:
+            yield f"{module}.{match['name']}"
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.split("\n\n")[0])
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "pandas_repo", type=Path, help="Path to a pandas repository"
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    reference_dir = args.pandas_repo / "doc" / "source" / "reference"
+    rst_files = sorted(reference_dir.glob("*.rst"))
+    if not rst_files:
+        parser.error(f"No .rst files found in {reference_dir}")
+    names = sorted(
+        {name for rst in rst_files for name in iter_public_names(rst)}
+    )
+    print("\n".join(names))  # noqa: T201
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()