Add production-ready Telegram bot flow (force-subscribe, search, admin, Mongo persistence)

[SasukeXDev]

Motivation

• Provide a production-grade Telegram bot runtime with enforced channel subscription, fast content search/delivery, admin tooling, and scalable persistence.
• Replace brittle file-based indexing with an async MongoDB-backed store and resilient Telegram retry logic to handle FloodWait/RPC issues.
• Improve UX with a welcome image/caption flow, inline keyboards, pagination, and pending delivery for users who must join channels first.
• Make configuration and deployment easier by adding modern env vars and documenting the new workflow.

Description

• Added async Mongo helper bot/helper/bot_database.py (Motor) to store users, content index, metrics, and broadcast logs and create indexes at startup via bot_db.ensure_indexes() called from bot/__main__.py.
• Implemented force-subscribe, search, delivery, admin and indexing flows in bot/telegram/plugins/start.py, with deferred payload delivery, /search + pagination, /index, and admin-only /stats, /users, /broadcast.
• Introduced bot/telegram/services.py for membership checks, search session caching, payload delivery, and bot/telegram/keyboards.py for clean inline keyboards.
• Added bot/helper/retry.py for tg_retry wrapper to handle FloodWait and RPCError retries, updated bot/config.py to support MONGO_URI, FORCE_SUB_CHANNELS, START_IMAGE_URL, ADMIN_IDS, and added motor to requirements.txt; README updated with usage and env examples.

Testing

• Ran python -m compileall bot to validate syntax and module imports, which completed successfully.
• Verified code lints/compilation for all modified modules (no runtime tests included in this PR).
• Dependency list updated to include motor for async MongoDB access and validated by the compile step.
• No automated integration tests were run against Telegram/Mongo in CI as part of this change.

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