diff --git a/.changeset/stale-chairs-relate.md b/.changeset/stale-chairs-relate.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..001156f60e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/stale-chairs-relate.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"nextra": patch
+---
+
+fix(nextra): ignore in loader files from `pages/api` folder
diff --git a/packages/nextra/scripts/dev.js b/packages/nextra/scripts/dev.js
index 5e77f8b134..4f630ea96d 100644
--- a/packages/nextra/scripts/dev.js
+++ b/packages/nextra/scripts/dev.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const esbuild = require('esbuild')
 const packageJson = require('../package.json')
 
-console.log('Watching...')
+console.log('[nextra] Watching...')
 
 const BUILD_OPTIONS = {
   platform: 'node',
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ const BUILD_OPTIONS = {
   watch: {
     onRebuild(error) {
       if (error) {
-        console.error('Watch build failed:', error)
+        console.error('[nextra] Watch build failed:', error)
       } else {
-        console.log('Watch build succeeded.')
+        console.log('[nextra] Watch build succeeded.')
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/nextra/src/compile.ts b/packages/nextra/src/compile.ts
index 2b9da11fc8..b5a6d28c4f 100644
--- a/packages/nextra/src/compile.ts
+++ b/packages/nextra/src/compile.ts
@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ export async function compileMdx(
       structurizedData
     }
   } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`\nError compiling ${resourcePath}`)
-    console.error(`${err}\n`)
+    console.error(`[nextra] Error compiling ${resourcePath}.`)
     throw err
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/nextra/src/index.js b/packages/nextra/src/index.js
index 7ec1817b62..be3618c3cb 100644
--- a/packages/nextra/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/nextra/src/index.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ module.exports =
 
     if (locales) {
       console.log(
-        '[Nextra] You have Next.js i18n enabled, read here (TODO: link) for the docs.'
+        '[nextra] You have Next.js i18n enabled, read here (TODO: link) for the docs.'
       )
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/nextra/src/loader.ts b/packages/nextra/src/loader.ts
index b843571760..060c289346 100644
--- a/packages/nextra/src/loader.ts
+++ b/packages/nextra/src/loader.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const [repository, gitRoot] = (function () {
     const gitRoot = path.join(repo.path(), '..')
     return [repo, gitRoot]
   } catch (e) {
-    console.warn('Init git repository failed', e)
+    console.warn('[nextra] Init git repository failed', e)
     return []
   }
 })()
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ async function loader(
   } = options
 
   const { resourcePath } = context
+  if (resourcePath.includes('/pages/api/')) {
+    console.warn(`[nextra] Ignoring ${resourcePath} because it is located in the "pages/api" folder.`)
+    return ''
+  }
+
   const filename = resourcePath.slice(resourcePath.lastIndexOf('/') + 1)
   const fileLocale = getLocaleFromFilename(filename)
 
@@ -137,15 +142,15 @@ async function loader(
     if (repository.isShallow()) {
       if (process.env.VERCEL) {
         console.warn(
-          `The repository is shallow cloned, so the latest modified time will not be presented. Set the VERCEL_DEEP_CLONE=true environment variable to enable deep cloning.`
+          '[nextra] The repository is shallow cloned, so the latest modified time will not be presented. Set the VERCEL_DEEP_CLONE=true environment variable to enable deep cloning.'
         )
       } else if (process.env.GITHUB_ACTION) {
         console.warn(
-          `The repository is shallow cloned, so the latest modified time will not be presented. See https://github.com/actions/checkout#fetch-all-history-for-all-tags-and-branches to fetch all the history.`
+          '[nextra] The repository is shallow cloned, so the latest modified time will not be presented. See https://github.com/actions/checkout#fetch-all-history-for-all-tags-and-branches to fetch all the history.'
         )
       } else {
         console.warn(
-          `The repository is shallow cloned, so the latest modified time will not be presented.`
+          '[nextra] The repository is shallow cloned, so the latest modified time will not be presented.'
         )
       }
     }
diff --git a/packages/nextra/src/utils.ts b/packages/nextra/src/utils.ts
index 24f0cb855c..36de082202 100644
--- a/packages/nextra/src/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/nextra/src/utils.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export const parseJsonFile: (
   try {
     return JSON.parse(content)
   } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`Error parsing ${path}, make sure it's a valid JSON \n` + err)
+    console.error(`[nextra] Error parsing ${path}, make sure it's a valid JSON`, err)
     return {}
   }
 }