diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 6b27dcca7..577253775 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 version: 2
 
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  apt_packages:
+    - swig
+  tools:
+    python: "3.11"
+
 python:
-  version: 3
   install:
     - requirements: doc/requirements.txt
     # the 'setuptools' method calls doc/setup.py that configures files and runs doxygen
diff --git a/doc/conf.py.in b/doc/conf.py.in
index 1a661e95c..0e0b619ed 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py.in
+++ b/doc/conf.py.in
@@ -41,10 +41,31 @@ needs_sphinx = '4.1.2'
 extensions = [
     'breathe',
     'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    # Add autoapi extension only if running in readthedocs workflow, when running with cmake
+    # it gets replace by empty value because @AUTOAPI_EXTENSION@ is not defined.
+    # We use autoapi in readthedocs because it can parse code directly (code generated by swig)
+    # to access doc strings. The benefit is that we don't need to do a full build of the library
+    # to create working libdnf5 python module which is required by autodoc to get doc string.
+    # We can't use autoapi in our regular builds because it is not currently packaged in fedora,
+    # but this is not a problem because regular builds have access to the full working python
+    # module and can use autodoc normally.
+    @AUTOAPI_EXTENSION@
 ]
 breathe_projects = {'dnf5': '@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@/xml/'}
 breathe_default_project = 'dnf5'
 
+# The autoapi config is only used doc/setup.py in readthedocs workflow (not by cmake)
+autoapi_type = 'python'
+autoapi_dirs = ['@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@/../bindings/python3/libdnf5', '@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@/../bindings/python3/libdnf5_cli']
+autoapi_root = "api/python/autoapi"
+autoapi_python_use_implicit_namespaces = True
+# We don't want to automatically generate the full documentation.
+# Instead we use directives, this allows greater control and both
+# cpp and python docs can have the same look and layout.
+autoapi_generate_api_docs = False
+autoapi_add_toctree_entry = False
+autoapi_add_objects_to_toctree = False
+
 if sphinx.version_info[:3] > (4, 0, 0):
     tags.add('sphinx4')
     extensions += ['dbusdoc']
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index cd6467ed8..32089dc94 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 breathe
+sphinx-autoapi
diff --git a/doc/setup.py b/doc/setup.py
index f84b0c41c..6747cab9c 100644
--- a/doc/setup.py
+++ b/doc/setup.py
@@ -25,9 +25,31 @@ def configure(src_path, dst_path, substitutions):
     open(dst_path, "w").write(data)
 
 
+def generate_bindings_from_dir(in_dir, out_dir):
+    swig_options = ["-python", "-DSWIGWORDSIZE64", "-doxygen", "-relativeimport", "-outdir", out_dir, "-c++"]
+    swig_includes = ["-I" + os.path.join(DIR, "../include"), "-I" + os.path.join(DIR, "../common"), "-I/usr/include/python3.11"]
+
+    for in_file in os.listdir(in_dir):
+        # exclude shared.i which is not a standalone interface file
+        # it is included in other files.
+        if in_file.endswith(".i") and in_file != "shared.i":
+            print("Generating bindings for: " + in_file)
+            subprocess.run(["/usr/bin/swig"] + swig_options + ["-interface", "_" + in_file[:-2]] + swig_includes + [os.path.join(in_dir, in_file)], cwd=DIR, check=True)
+
+
 # configure the .in files
 configure("Doxyfile.in", "Doxyfile", {"@CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR@": os.path.join(DIR, "..")})
-configure("conf.py.in", "conf.py", {"@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@": DIR})
+configure("conf.py.in", "conf.py", {"@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@": DIR, "@AUTOAPI_EXTENSION@": "\'autoapi.extension\',"})
+
+# In place replace autodoc directives with autoapidoc directives.
+# Our readthedocs workflow uses autoapidoc instead of autodoc because
+# it is able to parse code generated by swig without including the
+# module -> therefore there is no need for a full build in order to
+# generate python docs.
+for in_file in os.listdir(os.path.join(DIR + "/api/python")):
+    if in_file.endswith(".rst"):
+        file = os.path.join("api/python/", in_file)
+        configure(file, file, {"autoclass": "autoapiclass"})
 
 
 # run doxygen manually
@@ -35,5 +57,15 @@ def configure(src_path, dst_path, substitutions):
 subprocess.run(["doxygen"], cwd=DIR, check=True)
 
 
+# run swig manually to generate Python bindings which are then used to generate Python API docs
+print("Running SWIG...")
+
+# libdnf5
+# Generate bindings outside of doc dir, into their python bindings dir. This has to match with path provided to autoapi_dirs in conf.py.in
+generate_bindings_from_dir(os.path.join(DIR + "/../bindings/libdnf5"), os.path.join(DIR + "/../bindings/python3/libdnf5"))
+
+# libdnf5-cli
+generate_bindings_from_dir(os.path.join(DIR + "/../bindings/libdnf5_cli"), os.path.join(DIR + "/../bindings/python3/libdnf5_cli"))
+
 # no setup() is called
 # this file only configures files for building docs in Read the Docs
diff --git a/libdnf/solv/pool.hpp b/libdnf/solv/pool.hpp
index 8facbd028..4d785955f 100644
--- a/libdnf/solv/pool.hpp
+++ b/libdnf/solv/pool.hpp
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ class CompsPool : public Pool {
     // Search solvables that correspond to the environment_ids for given key
     // Return first non-empty string
     template <typename T>
-    std::string lookup_first_id_str(std::vector<T> ids, Id key) {
+    std::string lookup_first_id_str(const std::vector<T> & ids, Id key) {
         for (T id : ids) {
             auto value = lookup_str(id.id, key);
             if (value) {
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ class CompsPool : public Pool {
 
 
     template <typename T>
-    std::string get_translated_str(std::vector<T> ids, Id key, const char * lang = nullptr) {
+    std::string get_translated_str(const std::vector<T> & ids, Id key, const char * lang = nullptr) {
         // Go through all environment solvables and return first translation found.
         for (T id : ids) {
             Solvable * solvable = id2solvable(id.id);