diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/marqo.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/marqo.py
index a2331bc65d8..96b762662d7 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/marqo.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/vectorstores/marqo.py
@@ -109,9 +109,12 @@ class Marqo(VectorStore):
             List[str]: The list of ids that were added.
         """
 
-        if self._client.index(self._index_name).get_settings()["index_defaults"][
-            "treat_urls_and_pointers_as_images"
-        ]:
+        settings = self._client.index(self._index_name).get_settings()
+        if (
+            "index_defaults" in settings
+            and settings["index_defaults"]["treat_urls_and_pointers_as_images"]
+            or settings.get("treat_urls_and_pointers_as_images")
+        ):
             raise ValueError(
                 "Marqo.add_texts is disabled for multimodal indexes. To add documents "
                 "with a multimodal index use the Python client for Marqo directly."