diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 3b36cc4802..31f9b3e3cf 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ commands:
             cd js
             npm ci
             npm run build
-      
+
       - when:
-          condition: 
+          condition:
             not:
               equal:
                 - <<parameters.pandas_version>>
@@ -382,18 +382,20 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: make doc
           command: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install rename
             cd doc
             source .venv/bin/activate
             # For the API doc, we need to use the local version of plotly
             # since we are tweaking the source because of
             # graph_objs/graph_objects
+            uv pip uninstall plotly
+            cd ..
+            uv pip install -e .
+            cd doc
+            cd apidoc
+            make html
             if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" == "doc-prod" ]; then
-              uv pip uninstall plotly
-              cd ..
-              uv pip install -e .
-              cd doc
-              cd apidoc
-              make html
               cd _build/html
               touch .nojekyll
               git init
@@ -406,10 +408,16 @@ jobs:
               rm -rf .git
               cd ../..
             fi
+            tar -czf api_docs_html.tgz _build/html
 
       - store_artifacts:
           path: doc/build
           destination: doc/build
+
+      - store_artifacts:
+          path: doc/apidoc/api_docs_html.tgz
+          destination: doc/apidoc/api_docs_html.tgz
+
 workflows:
   code_formatting:
     jobs: