Sentinel2A_1C SAFE Download (non AWS example)

Hello - just working through the betsiboka example1 for using python sentinelhub import library (my first script). I modified the script to initially do a count of images for Sentinel2_L2A and if none then check Sentinel2_L1C. The intent is to fill-in time slices. I’ve been saving data to tiff but to process the L1C product in Sen2cor I need SAFE format. The only example for download of SAFE is on AWS. I can download SAFE on the scihub-copernicus manually but see no examples not on aws (which would require me to pay)?
( I also tried the sentinelsat library but kept getting a certificate error. ) Thanks for any help you may give - at present really just want to download data correct it and process in numpy. An alternative is using a text batch process uploaded from python but I’m no familiar enough of how to do this. I’m on python 3.7.9 that comes with arcgis.