@app.route('/get_user_profile_pic', methods=['POST'])
def get_user_profile_pic():
    try:

        email = request.form['email']
        conn = MySQLdb.connect(host='localhost', user='muscle', password='some_pass')
        c = conn.cursor(MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
        c.execute('USE muscle2')


        c.execute("SELECT Profile_image FROM USER WHERE Email = %s", [email])

        fetched = c.fetchone()['Profile_image']
        print(fetched)

        if(not fetched):
            return "User profile image not found"

        img_dir = "user_profile_pics/"
        img_path = fetched
        #img_path = "user_{:0>{width}}_profile_pic".format(ID,width=11)


        #get image in user_profile_pics
        with open(img_dir + img_path, "rb") as image_file:
            encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())
        return encoded_string

        c.close()
        conn.close()

    except Exception as e:
        return str(e)