Idefics2: how to send a post request with uploaded image?

[shizhi2]

I know we can send the image via url in the form of
![](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/assets/133914892/8174a6c4-3f46-4593-8293-b8bd76275eb4)
How can we use a local image for the idefics2 post request? Looking for some examplea for both curl request and requests body in python. Thanks!

[ktrapeznikov]

https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/basic_tutorials/visual_language_models

[shizhi2]

Thanks a lot! It seems that sending the base64 format image is only supported in python. How about sending the local image to cURL request?