I'm creating a Battle.net binary bot (UJZP), and I'm trying to figure out how to go about receiving data from the socket. I don't want to put the entire thing into an infinite loop (unless I can fork that loop, and continue to do other stuff), but I don't know how to use timers either.

Does anyone know how I'd go about doing this?

Well the recieve is blocking so just whenever you expect to get data back call the recv function socket_read (iirc) and wait for it to return then parse whatever data is returned in the function.