---
title: "Image URL Handling"
description: "import Image from '@theme/IdealImage'; import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';"
type: skill
canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/image-handling
source: "Claudary"
difficulty: intermediate
author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack"
date: 2026-07-10T11:25:17.039Z
license: CC-BY-4.0
attribution: "Image URL Handling — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/image-handling)"
---

# Image URL Handling
import Image from '@theme/IdealImage'; import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';

## Overview

import Image from '@theme/IdealImage';
import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';

# Image URL Handling 

<Image img={require('../../img/image_handling.png')}  style={{ width: '900px', height: 'auto' }} />

Some LLM API's don't support url's for images, but do support base-64 strings. 

For those, LiteLLM will:

1. Detect a URL being passed
2. Check if the LLM API supports a URL
3. Else, will download the base64 
4. Send the provider a base64 string. 


LiteLLM also caches this result, in-memory to reduce latency for subsequent calls. 

The limit for an in-memory cache is 1MB.

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Source: [Claudary](https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/image-handling) · https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com