Incorrect information in documentation and/or unexpected cli behavior on export

My actions before raising this issue

• Read/searched the docs
• Searched past issues

I’m going to say this is connected to #4119 and #4056 and @TOsmanov and @AetherBreeze

When using command

python3 cli.py export --format "COCO 1.0" 267

I get the error

usage: cli.py export [-h] task_id filename
cli.py export: error: argument task_id: invalid int value: 'COCO 1.0'

even through the Documetnation says:

cli.py export --format "COCO 1.0" 136

There also seems to be no way to export without images?

Expected Behaviour

Expect the documentation to be correct Export without image to be possible

Current Behaviour

Documentation is wrong –format seems to be broken from my testing Export without image is not possible

Possible Solution

export through web interface enables you to do all of the above

Your Environment

• Git hash commit (git log -1): 5e431714863d4be44dc05ecd1b76c9c056658103
• Docker version docker version (e.g. Docker 17.0.05): 20.10.12
• Are you using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes? no
• Operating System and version (e.g. Linux, Windows, MacOS): Ubuntu
• Code example or link to GitHub repo or gist to reproduce problem:
• Other diagnostic information / logs:
  Logs from `cvat` container

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[TOsmanov]

Hi @mrKallah,

There is an mistake in the documentation. You can export task annotation without images using cli.py dump:

python3 cli.py dump --format "COCO 1.0" 267 annotation.tar

[TOsmanov]

On second thought, maybe its zip because I am using YOLO and not COCO? If so maybe a list for the different ones?

@mrKallah You’re right, downloading the annotation must be in zip format, this is also relevant for the format CVAT 1.1