Powershell+VK API. How to bypass the limit of 1000 objects?

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Good day, comrades!
Help please with a problem.
I sketched a script for working with the VK API, but I can’t get around the limit on the number of objects.
Can you tell me if there are any errors in the script? I'm already stuck..

$i = 0
$uri = "https://api.vk.com/method/users.search?education_form='Очное отделение'&university_year=2019&graduation=2019&country=1&university_country=1&fields=domain&count=900&out=1&offset="+$i+"&access_token=03bdb304a427de9d761ae22c008d7a1995f2fcd2a5fae4dd5f4e2b3ae457fa2c1f8bf665cdfe6ec5ac107&v=5.68"
$request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $uri
$response_array = $request.content | ConvertFrom-Json 
$request_count = $response_array.response.count
"Всего: " + $request_count
#$result = $null
$request_array = $null

for ($i = 0; $i -le $request_count ; $i=$i+900)
{ 
write-host $i
$uri = "https://api.vk.com/method/users.search?education_form='Очное отделение'&university_year=2019&graduation=2019&country=1&university_country=1&fields=domain&count=900&out=1&offset="+$i+"&access_token=03bdb304a427de9d761ae22c008d7a1995f2fcd2a5fae4dd5f4e2b3ae457fa2c1f8bf665cdfe6ec5ac107&v=5.68"
write-host $uri
$request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $uri
$response_array = ($request.content | ConvertFrom-Json).response.items
$request_array = $request_array + $response_array
write-host("Получаем $i")
Start-Sleep -m 340    
}

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Please note that even when using the offset parameter, only the first 1000 results are available to get information.

Play around with the parameters, in particular, it should be enough -
sort - run twice with different sorting types
sex - run twice with different sex
age_from, age_to - run as many times as you like Bottom
line - we change the search parameters and get a new list of users, different from the previous ones results. We glue the lists and remove duplicates.
It seems to me that several combinations of the sex and age_to parameters will be enough (for example, male gender - age up to 20, male gender - age from 20 to 30, male gender - age from 30, repeat the combinations with the female gender).