From the course: Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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Challenge: Connect to an MCP server

Challenge: Connect to an MCP server

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] In this challenge, I want you to find out which currencies have increased in value the most against the US dollar comparing rates from July 2005. So the details for that file location are going to be given below to today's rate, and so you're going to be able to get that current data from exchangerateapi.com. So go ahead and prepare your workspace. So on your computer, go to your desktop and create a new directory called MCP inside the Desktop directory, and then go ahead and copy the data file. So you can go ahead and download or copy the file from the Challenge One Exchange Rate July 2005 text file from the GitHub course page, and then place this file in the directory you've just created, so that's desktop/mcp. Now you'll need to use two MCP servers here. You'll need to use the Fetch MCP server, and that'll allow you to get the exchange rate for today from exchangerateapi.com. And you'll also need to use the Filesystem MCP server, and this will allow…

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