Use wp_remote_get to add image to media library

I don’t have a code example to test atm but to download images via an URL, in your case after $image = wp_remote_get( $fr_news_thumbnail_url ); you can use the function:

media_sideload_image($file, $post_id, $desc);

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/media_sideload_image

Related Posts:

  1. How to Fix HTTP Error When Uploading Images?
  2. Minimum Dimensions Requirement for Featured Image?
  3. Add Image Dimensions to Media Library Tab on Media Upoader
  4. Custom post type thumbnail / Media Library WP_DEBUG notice [closed]
  5. Replicate featured image functionality
  6. Need clear explanation about medias/files/attchments
  7. How to replace featured image upload option with the post media image option
  8. media-library: how to insert thumbnails with a fixed width, regardless of landscape/portrait orientation
  9. How to bring files from the upload directory to the media gallery?
  10. WordPress image crop probems
  11. Images uploaded on frontend display correctly but not in media editor.
  12. Thumbnail (featured image) and Media Library cleanup queries help needed
  13. Set featured image from auto generated video thumbnail url php
  14. After migrating media library is not showing thumbnails
  15. How to modify Media Library images DPI [ image quality down to make small in size ] [closed]
  16. How do I regenerate thumbnails?
  17. Add Title Attribute to WordPress Image the_post_thumbnail
  18. Display Category Thumbnail and links in Woo commerce
  19. Replacing Gutenberg Featured Image control?
  20. oEmbed, thumbnails and wordpress
  21. the_post_thumbnail scaling not hard cropping
  22. Featured Image Inherited from Parent Page
  23. Change wording of default thumbnail metabox
  24. Specific featured image for each category
  25. how to pull images with no add_theme_support(‘post_thumbnails’)
  26. Can WordPress crop only the post thumbnails?
  27. Query the post which have a thumbnail
  28. How to show a featured image as current?
  29. How can I get a different image size, if all I have is the link?
  30. Show current page featured image in sidebar
  31. Importing featured image to posts, duplicates the image
  32. PDF Image in content
  33. Why does the Hard Crop option Scale?
  34. Post Thumbnails multiple sizes
  35. Long Post Title Misaligning Grid with Featured Image
  36. How to add multiple featured images to post/page without a plugin
  37. How do I set “Upload Image” as detault “Set Featured Image” window?
  38. Featured Image won’t display on Posts page
  39. Get post thumbnail from subpages with a foreach loop
  40. Getting images to show up in RSS Reader
  41. how i can increase Featured thumbnails size?
  42. the_post_thumbnail() Custom sizes not display correctly
  43. Set_post_thumbnail not resizing images
  44. How to inject attributes into get_the_post_thumbnail?
  45. MultiPostThumbnails for Custom Post Type
  46. Muliple featured images (or just images) per post
  47. WordPress Featured Image function recreate
  48. Using Featured Image as Hero Background
  49. wp_get_attachment_image_src match smallest edge
  50. Can’t Set Featured Image [closed]
  51. Resize post thumbnail produces horrible image quality..Any help?
  52. Original image not saving?
  53. Post thumbnail outside of loop
  54. query_posts adding two “post-entry” divs
  55. Display a thumbnail outside of the loop for a page
  56. How to use get_the_title with text on the ‘alt’ of the_thumbnail array?
  57. remove_image_size doesn’t seem to be working
  58. Get Featured Image Outside Loop Not Working
  59. Responsive scaling of image for the_post_thumbnail() [closed]
  60. images not showing despite using add_theme_support(‘post-thumbnails’);
  61. post thumbnail: increase dimension if smaller than… Possible?
  62. Displaying caption with featured image
  63. add_theme_support post-thumbnails not working
  64. Trying to show WordPress category query result as background image
  65. How risize a thumbnail?
  66. custom thumbnail image size not working
  67. Comparison Operators not working for conditional author post thumbnails
  68. Assign SQL ‘post_thumbnail’ column as featured image
  69. Default thumb – how to set it
  70. How to get featured image thumbnail to open larger version in attachment page?
  71. How to update custom image sizes?
  72. My Gallery Photos are showing in the post’s excerpts
  73. featured images twenty eleven theme
  74. Picture inserted in the post not showing in “Gallery”
  75. featured image is not showing
  76. How to change the format of thumbnails into wordpress theme?
  77. How to calculate the sum of all featured thumbnail height on WordPress?
  78. How to create thumbnails programmatically?
  79. Missing image size
  80. Usage of add_image_size (for featured image)
  81. Featured image: Dynamic image sizes when enlarged with javascript
  82. Smaller Size for featured images
  83. Featured image doesn’t appear in Blog index
  84. Remove Featured Image based on Date
  85. How to show only 2nd featured img on home/blog
  86. Echo recent posts each with its own respective featured image
  87. How to get post thumbnail to be equal to set media size
  88. Add notice to add image popup
  89. Mass/Bulk assign featured images to posts
  90. setting featured image is not working while running script in background, works when running that script from browser
  91. WordPress save thumbnail but don’t show it [closed]
  92. How to modify responsive images in post thumbnails
  93. get_the_post_thumbnail() – Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-includes/post-thumbnail-template.php on line 64
  94. Different thumbnail size than actual picture in post
  95. How to get the featured image inside of a single-.php template?
  96. Where is the template from the_post_thumbnail()?
  97. Get Post Thumbnail Outside of Loop
  98. Theme:Twenty Fourteen, How to remove featured image on single post page for particular category
  99. Strange image artifact on font-page thumbnail image
  100. Delete post media except featured image