Amazon Q Business is no longer open to new customers. For capabilities similar to Q Business, explore Amazon Quick. [Learn more](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/qbusiness-availability-change.html).

# Downloading images to add to responses (API operations)
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If you have implemented your own application with the Amazon Q Business Chat and ChatSync APIs, you can use the [GetMedia](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_GetMedia.html) API operation to download the images to add to chat responses. You can find the `mediaId` using the Chat, ChatSync and ListMessages API operations. The `mediaId` is listed in the `textMessageSegments` as part of the source attribution.

**Note**  
The `mediaBytes` field in the GetMedia API response contains binary image data that may not require base64 decoding, depending on your implementation.

```
aws qbusiness get-media \
--application-id {{app-12345abcde}} \
--conversation-id {{conv-67890fghij}} \
--media-id {{media-12345abcde}} \
--message-id {{msg-67890fghij}}
```

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Q. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query amazonq` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).