Refactor stream routes to JSON API responses

[SasukeXDev]

Motivation

• Convert frontend-facing endpoints from server-rendered HTML to a JSON API so clients can render UI and consume metadata programmatically.
• Keep direct streaming/download functionality intact for media delivery while removing backend template rendering responsibilities.
• Standardize returned data shapes (serialize DB documents, include watch/download URLs, surface auth state) to simplify frontend integration.

Description

• Replaced HTML responses with JSON across login, home, playlist, channel, search, dbsearch, and watch routes by using web.json_response(...) and returning structured payloads rather than rendered snippets.
• Added shared helpers: _is_admin, _auth_payload, _serialize_document, and _with_watch_urls to centralize auth payloads and document serialization (including converting Mongo _id to id) and to attach watch_url/download_url to items.
• Refactored helper generators in bot/helper/chats.py and bot/helper/index.py to return structured dictionaries/lists (with public_id, thumbnail_url, watch_url, etc.) instead of HTML strings so routes can forward JSON data directly.
• Preserved streaming/download logic inside media_streamer() and the route GET /{chat_id}/{encoded_name}; updated watch route to return file metadata and stream/download URLs (including video metadata when available).
• Removed the now-unused server-side renderer bot/server/render_template.py and the bot/server/template/ HTML files since API routes no longer call render_page().

Testing

• Ran python -m compileall bot to verify modules compile after refactor, which completed successfully.
• Ran repository searches for template rendering and HTML response patterns to confirm render_page and server templates were removed, and those checks passed (no remaining backend HTML responses in the modified routes).
• No automated unit tests were present or modified in this change; only compilation and repository scanning were executed and succeeded.

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