The invention relates to the technical field of neutron spallation, in particular to a proton source obtaining method. The method mainly involves a radioactive source, a light-permeating film and a source supporting device used for supporting the radioactive source and the light-permeating film, wherein the radioactive source adopts an americium-241 radioactive source as an alpha source, a Mylar film is adopted as the light-permeating film, and the source supporting device is used for fixing the alpha source and the Mylar film. The alpha source and the Mylar film are installed on the source supporting device in sequence in the transmitting direction, so that the surface of the Mylar film is parallel to the alpha source; americium-241 generates alpha decay, released alpha particles bombardthe Mylar film, so that carbon-hydrogen bonds in the molecular structure of the Mylar film are broken, and free protons are released. The proton source obtaining method is simple in operation, low incost and high in operation flexibility, the generated proton flux can meet general experiment requirements, the method can be used for generating low-energy (keV) proton beam flux, measuring the sections, interacting with matter, of low-energy protons and calibrating energy of a detector.