Hello Haley,
For the first question you should be able to view this in the interaction view.
For the second question there is no out of the box solution that I am aware of besides the article you posted. But we did have a similar thread that kind of hits on what you are looking for. In general its going to take some custom code and use of our endpoints.
Cheers,
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Cam
Online Community Manager/Moderator
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