feat(anthropic): Add image url support to anthropic #7961
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This PR updates the
langchain-anthropic
package to support image inputs provided as URLs, in addition to the existing base64 encoding support.According to the latest Anthropic documentation, Claude 3 models can accept image inputs via a URL source:
{"type": "image", "source": {"type": "url", "url": "..."}}
.This change modifies the
_formatImage
utility function inlibs/langchain-anthropic/src/utils/message_inputs.ts
to detect if the input string is a valid URL. If it is, it formats the message payload accordingly; otherwise, it falls back to the base64 parsing logic.This resolves the limitation where LangchainJS previously only accepted base64-encoded images, allowing users to leverage the full capabilities of the Anthropic API for multimodal inputs more easily.