How to get more than 5000 friends using the friends.get() method using the VKontakte API?

Question

PHP

I'm trying to get a list of friends from a user using PHP, the number of friends is more than 9 thousand, in the VK API the "friends.get" method has restrictions on getting only 5000.
Initially I tried to get it this way:

$token = "XXXXXX"; //токен
$friends_get = api ('https://api.vk.com/method/friends.get?order=name&fields=name&name_case=ins&v=5.28&access_token='.$token);
$count = $friends_get['count']; // получаем массив пользователей
for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++) { 
$banned = $friends_get ['items'][$i]['deactivated'];//Выбираем пользователей со статусом 'deactivated'
$id = $friends_get ['items'][$i]['id']; //получаем список ID пользователей
if ($banned == banned){ //проверяем, если страница заблокирована

Then I drove the whole thing into an array and sorted it out in a loop to select only the blocked ones, that’s not the point ..
The problem arose in the fact that there are more than 5 thousand friends and I can’t figure out how to pick up the rest.
Tried a query like this:

$members = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://api.vk.com/method/friends.get?user_id=436764&offset=9000&fields=name"),true);

I added "offset =" and it seems that I managed to take out another part, but I can't figure out how to combine them with the previous five thousand, or how to run this query several times and put everything together.

Answer 1

Do it in a loop. Each time increase the offset by 5000 until it is greater than the counttotal number of friends returned in the field. Don't forget about the limit of 3 requests per second.
You can still get confused and push all the code into execute() , then a single request will follow from PHP, and the cycle will scroll to the sides of the VK.

Answer 2

take the vk-io module there has its own api over vk, it allows you to collect data streams in a couple of lines