Claude's vision capabilities allow it to process images. Which of the following is a supported image input method in the Claude API?
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Short Explanation
You can give Claude an image as base64 data baked right into the API request, or as a public URL it can fetch. You don't need a special upload step.
Full Explanation
Claude's vision API accepts images in the messages array as content blocks of type 'image'. Two formats are supported: base64-encoded image data with a specified media type (jpeg, png, gif, webp), or a URL pointing to a publicly accessible image. The real-time video stream URL is wrong because Claude processes static images, not live video streams. The dedicated image-upload endpoint that returns an image_id describes a separate file upload API pattern used by some other providers, not how Anthropic's API works. The PDF conversion requirement is wrong because PDF conversion is not required; images are sent directly.