From 58c60d9fa23fe69f86b08bf7fb90c99d8090fc94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ali Abid <aliabid94@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 14:00:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] support URL

---
 gradio/inputs.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gradio/inputs.py b/gradio/inputs.py
index 959a217bb7..7985e5a6c2 100644
--- a/gradio/inputs.py
+++ b/gradio/inputs.py
@@ -308,7 +308,10 @@ class Image(AbstractInput):
         return array
 
     def process_example(self, example):
-        return preprocessing_utils.convert_file_to_base64(example)
+        if os.path.exists(example)
+            return preprocessing_utils.convert_file_to_base64(example)
+        else:
+            return example
 
 class Microphone(AbstractInput):