I know that to use tabpy, I have to "start up" Tabpy Server, as it says here - https://github.com/tableau/TabPy/blob/master/docs/server-startup.md - but I don't have a server. Is it still possible to use tabpy?
When you run python tabpy.py --config=path\to\my\config it starts up the "server". You don't need an actual server to run this program. It is called a server because it accepts requests and forwards them to Python/R/Matlab services.