Follow another user's friends list using GS API (Will not work with Mastodon friends)

GS_Follow_Friends.php

<?php
/*
By Mitchell Urgero (@stitchxd@p2px.me)
Mass follower using a friends.json list. Based off of https://gitlab.com/snippets/12852
(Looks like the api will only grab 201 "friends" at a time.... shame really...)

*/
$user = "user";
$pass = "P@ssW0Rd";
$api = "https://example.com/api";
//Call start(..) with the api url's of peoples lists you want to scrape.
start("https://example.com","someuser1");
start("https://example.com","someuser2");

//Do not edit past this point...
function start($url, $name){
	$friendJSON = file_get_contents($url."/api/statuses/friends.json?screen_name=$name&count=9999");
	$friendPHP = json_decode($friendJSON, true);
	echo count($friendPHP)." users to follow in this list...\r\n";
	$i = 1;
	
	foreach($friendPHP as $f){
		echo "$i: ".$f['statusnet_profile_url']."\r\n";
		followUser($f['statusnet_profile_url']);
		$i++;
		sleep(3);
	}
}
function followUser($url){
	global $user, $pass, $api;
	$statusUrl = $api."/statuses/update.json";
	$POST = array(
		"status" => "follow ".$url
	);
	$fields_string = '';
	foreach($POST as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
	rtrim($fields_string, '&');
	
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $statusUrl);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($POST));
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$user:$pass");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
	$output = curl_exec($ch);
	$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	echo "\r\n";
	echo $output."\r\n";
	return;
}
?>