Here is a really handy script for processing and uploading images that's been a top google result for forever. I used it years ago and it was really easy to implement. Looks like it was just updated a couple weeks ago too :).
Just read the image from the url with file_get_contents or using curl and use the php gd library to resize and crop the image as per your needs.
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