Search API leads to 500 internal error

General
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Hello, performing a GET request to https://gitlab.com/api/v4/search?scope=users&search=renovate-bot returns the following error constantly:

{
    "message": "500 Internal Server Error"
}
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I used the same API command for searching for other users and it works fine. Changing renovate-bot to “bot” works fine and displays results. Putting “renovate” also does 500 error. Probably means that it’s restricted and not allowing you to search for it for a reason.

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There are different inputs that cause this, I don’t see any correlation between them.
You can search for rossta as well and get the 500 internal error.

I think we can both agree that in case of restricted API we should receive “401 Unauthorized” or something with actual details regarding the error.