How to get status from nodes using the n8n API?

This one I use for running executions every minute:

And this one is to check for any waiting executions of the previous workflow:

I’m executing it a few times, clicking and clicking, refreshing but no data to output as the other workflow is running and running. I may be confused by what “waiting” actually means. All in all I want to accomplish what this post is talking about without the html calls and cookies as now there is an n8n node: