/search returns 500 for any multi-type query combining person or list with other types

[Kashish-Sharma]

GET /search/<type> returns HTTP 500 whenever the comma-separated type list contains 2+ types where at least one of person or list is mixed with anything else. Single-type queries and movie,show work fine.

Repro:

curl "https://api.trakt.tv/search/movie,show,person,list?query=matrix" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "trakt-api-version: 2" \
  -H "trakt-api-key: <redacted>"

Results (query=matrix, tested 2026-09-08):

/search/<types>	Result
movie, show, person, list (single)	200
movie,show	200
movie,person, show,person, person,list, movie,list, show,list, movie,show,list, movie,show,person, movie,show,person,list	500

Same result via curl with only a trakt-api-key header (no OAuth token), so it's not an auth issue — reproduced consistently across 3+ runs, first observed 2026-09-06, still failing today (2026-09-08).

Response headers on the 500:

x-error-message: Internal server error. Please open a support issue and include your full API request and response, including all headers.
x-request-id: 6c9dcabe-1ff2-4b2d-b01a-924512b827f2
cf-ray: a37fa37738a0a79d-DEL
date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:23:04 GMT

Body is empty.

Impact: This is the query our app's "All" search tab sends (movie,show,person,list), so search appears completely broken for every user hitting that default tab.

[vladjerca]

@Kashish-Sharma thanks for the report! Mixed-type search isn't something we support anymore, so for the "All" tab I recommend launching separate requests for:

• media (/search/movie,show)
• people (/search/person)
• lists (/search/list)

The scores from each aren't comparable, so it's best to show them as separate sections in your app.

The 500 is on us though. We're changing mixed-type requests to fall back to a movie and show search instead of failing, and the response will include an x-search-ignored-types header naming the types that were skipped (e.g. person,list). Let me know if all is good new version should be live 👌🏼