Last night I got to the point where I am able to find a post, apply some filtering, and perform an upvote. In all it took me about 4-6 hours to go from zero to having a python environment and being able to upvote (Windows 10). Now it's a matter of tuning (or... eventually... training). @xeroc did leave a few details out, but if you want to learn, the @xeroc link in my top post is a really good start.