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https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/5200/VJ109_NRT/2025/057/

i'm downloading files from the URL above daily to produce VIIRS based maps of burned areas. I only want files from 19-22Z. how can I use the wget command supplied to filter files outside of this time range? The wget command is below. I've tried some solutions from online but can't get it to work. Has someone successfully done this already? currently I'm just deleting the files after that I don't need.

wget -e robots=off -m -np -R .html,.tmp -nH --cut-dirs=3 "https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/5200/VJ109_NRT/2025/057/" --header "Authorization: Bearer INSERT_EDL_TOKEN_HERE" -P .

Have you tried any of the download scripts provided on the page:
https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tools-and-services/data-download-scripts/#samples
Also, there are example of "In-house APIs" available from:
https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tools-and-services/

you know what after downloading so many files I now see that they all have systematic times. every 6 minutes (ofc) but the intervals never change. So I think I can confidently just assume the time is divisible by 6. I use to think it could shift to times not divisible by 6. I use the provided wget code as earthdata suggests

Yes, VJ109 (and all other VIIRS Level 2 products) are 6-minutes swath product so the acquisition time is incremented by 6-min.