From 85cc843d3693db093aee6e280d47fc82da07dd36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Robison <jackrobison@lbry.io>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:23:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] initialize settings if necessary when configuring an api
 client

---
 lbrynet/daemon/auth/client.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lbrynet/daemon/auth/client.py b/lbrynet/daemon/auth/client.py
index ffe0eafa2..a0823936c 100644
--- a/lbrynet/daemon/auth/client.py
+++ b/lbrynet/daemon/auth/client.py
@@ -158,5 +158,7 @@ class AuthAPIClient(object):
 class LBRYAPIClient(object):
     @staticmethod
     def get_client():
+        if not conf.settings:
+            conf.initialize_settings()
         return AuthAPIClient.config() if conf.settings['use_auth_http'] else \
             JSONRPCProxy.from_url(conf.settings.get_api_connection_string())