LordPretender

<p>This plugin allow you to add files into your media library without having to upload them. So, you will be able to share, for example, your files into your Google Drive.<br />
This also save you steps to download the image to local computer and upload again to your own WordPress.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically downloads and adds the file to the media library.</li>
<li>After the uploading is successful, you are redirected to the edit screen</li>
<li>A new dropdown list is available in the media library to let you display only uploaded files, not uploaded files, …</li>
</ul>


Add Media from URL

large chunks of code taken from the much better original here:

https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/lh-add-media-from-url/

IMO it unethical to use this plugin

A crappy clone of the original

Let you add media files into your media library without having to upload them.

WordPress.org

Brandon Kraft

<p>Press This is a little tool that lets you grab bits of the web and create new posts with ease.<br />
It will even allow you to choose from images or videos included on the page and use them in your post.<br />
Use Press This as a quick and lightweight way to highlight another page on the web.</p>
<h4>Version 2.0 – Gutenberg Block Editor</h4>
<p>Press This 2.0 brings the modern WordPress block editor experience to the bookmarklet popup. You can now compose posts using familiar blocks like Paragraph, Heading, Image, Quote, List, and Embed.</p>
<p><strong>New Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Block Editor</strong> – Full block editor integration for a consistent WordPress editing experience</li>
<li><strong>Smart Post Format Suggestions</strong> – Automatically suggests Video, Quote, or Link formats based on content</li>
<li><strong>Enhanced Content Extraction</strong> – Improved scraping with JSON-LD structured data support</li>
<li><strong>Client-Side Only Scraping</strong> – All content extraction happens in your browser for better privacy and security</li>
<li><strong>Featured Image Support</strong> – Set any scraped image as your post’s featured image</li>
<li><strong>Improved Media Grid</strong> – Better thumbnail display with support for video and audio embeds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Filters for Developers</h4>
<p>Press This 2.0 includes new filters for customization:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>press_this_allowed_blocks</code> – Customize which blocks are available in the editor</li>
<li><code>press_this_post_format_suggestion</code> – Modify the auto-suggested post format</li>
</ul>
<p>See the <a href="#developer-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Developer Documentation</a> section below for details.</p>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>Bugs and PRs can be submitted via https://github.com/WordPress/press-this .</p>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
<h4>New Hooks and Filters in 2.0</h4>
<p><strong>press_this_allowed_blocks</strong></p>
<p>Customize which blocks are available in the Press This editor.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'press_this_allowed_blocks', function( $blocks ) {
    // Add the gallery block
    $blocks[] = 'core/gallery';

    // Remove the embed block
    $blocks = array_filter( $blocks, function( $block ) {
        return $block !== 'core/embed';
    } );

    return $blocks;
} );
</code></pre>
<p>Default blocks: <code>core/paragraph</code>, <code>core/heading</code>, <code>core/image</code>, <code>core/quote</code>, <code>core/list</code>, <code>core/list-item</code>, <code>core/embed</code></p>
<p><strong>press_this_post_format_suggestion</strong></p>
<p>Modify or override the auto-suggested post format based on content.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'press_this_post_format_suggestion', function( $suggested_format, $data ) {
    // If the URL contains 'podcast', suggest audio format
    if ( ! empty( $data['u'] ) && strpos( $data['u'], 'podcast' ) !== false ) {
        return 'audio';
    }

    return $suggested_format;
}, 10, 2 );
</code></pre>
<p>The <code>$data</code> array contains scraped content including:<br />
– <code>u</code> – Source URL<br />
– <code>s</code> – Selected text<br />
– <code>t</code> – Page title<br />
– <code>_images</code> – Array of image URLs<br />
– <code>_embeds</code> – Array of embed URLs<br />
– <code>_meta</code> – Meta tag data<br />
– <code>_jsonld</code> – JSON-LD structured data</p>
<h4>Preserved Hooks from 1.x</h4>
<p>All existing hooks continue to work:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>press_this_redirect_in_parent</code> – Control post-save redirect behavior</li>
<li><code>press_this_save_post</code> – Filter post data before saving</li>
<li><code>press_this_save_redirect</code> – Filter redirect URL after save</li>
<li><code>enable_press_this_media_discovery</code> – Toggle media scraping</li>
<li><code>press_this_data</code> – Filter the complete scraped data array</li>
<li><code>press_this_suggested_html</code> – Filter default content templates</li>
<li><code>shortcut_link</code> – Customize the bookmarklet URL</li>
</ul>
<h3>History</h3>
<p>WordPress, from the earliest days, included some way to bring in snippets from other websites for you to post on your own.</p>
<p>The original “Press It” was removed from WordPress 2.5 and a new “Press This” added in 2.6. It existed pretty much unchanged until WordPress 4.2, which completely refreshed Press This.</p>
<p>In WordPress 4.9, Press This was spun out to a “canonical plugin” — an official plugin from WordPress.org so sites who wanted to use it could, but streamline more niche functionality out of Core. This was previously done with the Importers.</p>
<p>In version 2.0, Press This was modernized to use the Gutenberg block editor, bringing it in line with the modern WordPress editing experience while maintaining backward compatibility with existing installations.</p>


Press This

I tried out this plugin after being reminded about this feature of WordPress. I searched through core and found out its now a plugin. Tried it out, and it worked exactly like I expected! 

A problem is that, we like this new version of the post edit screen so much we want to come back and edit posts from this screen too... but you can't. 
😢
Maybe now that its a plugin you guys can give us a way to add an "edit in press this" button in the wp-admin bar, or on the posts screen?

Love this plugin - needs ability to edit posts

I installed it, wrote a post, tried to save, my Safari browser hang, consumed more than 4GB of memory and finally crashed with my post gone of course.

Tried, killed browser (Safari), uninstalled.

Posting images, links, and cat gifs will never be the same.

Add Media from URL vs Press This