Hi i'm writing an application as a personal project mostly for learning.

Currently i'm trying to retrieve the a list of all the tags currently on safebooru but i've noticed that there is a hard limit of 1000 tags for a request.

I was wondering if there is something i missed because I think that making multiple request creates more stress that one single one my 2 cents.

Think about the data weight of a single request like you are talking about. In order to complete the task, the server may be aggrogating populations of those tags for fast look-up. That's why the request isn't reasonable.