diff --git a/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml b/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
index 81e4c2f1a..b57f6718b 100644
--- a/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
+++ b/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
             <!-- Context dependent actions -->
             <action id="MagentoCreateRoutesFile" class="com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.actions.context.xml.NewRoutesXmlAction"/>
             <action id="MagentoCreateDiFile" class="com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.actions.context.xml.NewDiXmlAction"/>
+            <action id="MagentoCreateWebapiFile" class="com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.actions.context.xml.NewWebapiXmlAction"/>
             <!-- Context dependent actions -->
             <separator/>
             <add-to-group group-id="NewGroup" anchor="before" relative-to-action="NewXml"/>
diff --git a/src/com/magento/idea/magento2plugin/actions/context/xml/NewWebapiXmlAction.java b/src/com/magento/idea/magento2plugin/actions/context/xml/NewWebapiXmlAction.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..241d24d83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/com/magento/idea/magento2plugin/actions/context/xml/NewWebapiXmlAction.java
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * See COPYING.txt for license details.
+ */
+
+package com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.actions.context.xml;
+
+import com.intellij.ide.fileTemplates.actions.AttributesDefaults;
+import com.intellij.psi.PsiDirectory;
+import com.intellij.psi.PsiFile;
+import com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.actions.context.AbstractContextAction;
+import com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.magento.files.ModuleWebApiXmlFile;
+import com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.magento.packages.ComponentType;
+import com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.magento.packages.Package;
+import com.magento.idea.magento2plugin.util.magento.GetMagentoModuleUtil;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+public class NewWebapiXmlAction extends AbstractContextAction {
+
+    public static final String ACTION_NAME = "Magento 2 WEB API File";
+    public static final String ACTION_DESCRIPTION = "Create a new Magento 2 webapi.xml file";
+
+    /**
+     * New webapi.xml file generation action constructor.
+     */
+    public NewWebapiXmlAction() {
+        super(ACTION_NAME, ACTION_DESCRIPTION, new ModuleWebApiXmlFile());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean isVisible(
+            final @NotNull GetMagentoModuleUtil.MagentoModuleData moduleData,
+            final @NotNull PsiDirectory targetDirectory,
+            final PsiFile targetFile
+    ) {
+        return targetDirectory.getName().equals(Package.moduleBaseAreaDir)
+                && moduleData.getType().equals(ComponentType.module);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected AttributesDefaults getProperties(
+            final @NotNull AttributesDefaults defaults,
+            final @NotNull GetMagentoModuleUtil.MagentoModuleData moduleData,
+            final PsiDirectory targetDirectory,
+            final PsiFile targetFile
+    ) {
+        return defaults;
+    }
+}