`run` command does not support all scancode.io outputs

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

Discussed in #1979

^{Originally posted by FabianRolfMatthiasNoll December 4, 2025}
I was trying to use ORT also for our container image scanning when someone pointed out i could use scancode directly and then import
that into ORT. But im not getting really smart from the documentation. I want to use the docker container that is provided from scancode because that makes it easier for me.

docker run --rm         
--user root         
-v "$PWD":/codedrop         
-v "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt":/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt 
<artifactory-proxy>/enterprise-docker-dev/aboutcode-org/scancode.io:latest 
run analyse_docker_image docker:<image-name> --project test --format ort-package-list

But if i do that its not detected as a valid option:
run run: error: argument --format: invalid choice: 'ort-package-list' (choose from json, spdx, cyclonedx, attribution).

What am i doing wrong.

See https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/blob/main/scanpipe/management/commands/run.py#L62 here we do not support all scancode.io output formats (like ort-package-list).

[tdruez]

@AyanSinhaMahapatra Thanks for starting this. The current implementation will need a bit more though as it introduce problematic scenarios, such as adding csv and xlsx are valid format options in the run while not supported by the --print output option enforced in run.

run scan_codebase dir/ --format csv
CommandError: --print is not compatible with xlsx and csv formats.

For now, I'm merging a minimal fix in #1982

[gyanranjanpanda]

is this issue still open