Generate api data on each push (#10609)

* add new qmk generate-api command, to generate a complete set of API data.

* Generate api data and push it to the keyboard repo

* fix typo

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Joel Challis <git@zvecr.com>

* fixup api workflow

* remove file-changes-action

* use a more mainstream github action

* fix yaml error

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

* more uniform date handling

* make flake8 happy

* Update lib/python/qmk/decorators.py

Co-authored-by: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Joel Challis <git@zvecr.com>
Co-authored-by: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

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diff --git a/.github/workflows/api.yml b/.github/workflows/api.yml
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+name: Update API Data
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - master
+    paths:
+    - 'keyboards/**'
+    - 'layouts/community/**'
+
+jobs:
+  api_data:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container: qmkfm/base_container
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 1
+        persist-credentials: false
+
+    - name: Generate API Data
+      run: qmk generate-api
+
+    - name: Upload API Data
+      uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@3.7.1
+      with:
+        ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        BRANCH: main
+        FOLDER: api_data/v1
+        CLEAN: true
+        GIT_CONFIG_EMAIL: hello@qmk.fm
+        REPOSITORY_NAME: qmk/qmk_keyboards
+        TARGET_FOLDER: v1