API VK. How to know the number of friends correctly?

Question

API

Hello, I am making this request.

string friend_get = request.Get("https://api.vk.com/method/friends.get?"
                            + "&user_id=" + userID
                            + "&fields=nickname"
                            + "&access_token=" + token).ToString();

In response I get something like

Cry

{"response":[{"uid":227572,"first_name":"Елена","last_name":"Коробова","nickname":"~ La Luz ~","online":0,"user_id":227572},{"uid":8756522,"first_name":"Денис","last_na

Then I count the number of words

first_name

This is a cruel crutch ... how do I get exactly the number of all friends.

Answer 1

add the version to the query parameters v=5.92
then something like this will come

{
  "response": {
    "count": 3,
    "items": [5485951, 84317567, 997521] 
  }
}

where countis the number of friends